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British Missing Couple Found Dead in Their Car amid Flooding in Spain as Death Toll Surpasses 200

A missing British couple have been found dead in their car amid the also reported on the couple being found dead.

They were found on Saturday, Nov. 2, after telling neighbors they were stepping out to fill their car with gas. Their daughter, Ruth O'Loughlin, hoped her parents could stay safe amid the conditions.

"We held out hope that they were still alive and maybe sheltering somewhere," she told the BBC. "We talked about mum and dad coming over here next year to spend some time with us and we just ended the call and I'm really glad I said 'I love you' and she said she loves me too."

A man looks at piles of cars swept up after the recent flash flooding in the nearby municipality Alfafar 11 01 24 Cars piled up after floods in Valencia, Spain, on Nov. 1, 2024. 

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Her sister, Renee Turner, spoke to their dad on Monday, Oct. 28, and expected to hear back the following day. "Sometimes that's not unusual, we can go a day or so without messaging every five minutes," she told the BBC.

Don and Terri's friends had called O'Loughlin to tell her of her parents' deaths. "He said 'Ruth, get your husband,' I called my husband in and he just said 'Martin, hold your wife', and said that they’d been found and they'd been found in their car," O'Loughlin recalled her parents' friends saying.

"We still don't know exactly what happened to them. The only thing we've got from this is that they were together. It's not the way you want your parents to go."

The couple moved there from Staffordshire 10 years prior because they "always wanted to live in the sunshine."

"They were together. They had great friends there," O'Loughlin told the BBC. "We got comfort in knowing that they made friends everywhere they went."

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