Overview
- The Valencian High Court published a ruling in which a magistrate opened a separate case for a Catarroja resident who died at La Fe after being admitted on November 1.
- The order requests medical documentation from the hospital and tasks the Legal Medicine Institute with assessing whether storm-related conditions at the man's home caused his death.
- Including this case, five deaths are now under forensic study, and a causality finding could raise the official toll from 229 to 234.
- The other four deaths under review involve a woman who died November 6 at Hospital de la Ribera in Alzira, a man who died November 26, and two women from a Paiporta care home who later died in Valencia hospitals.
- The reviews were initiated following petitions from relatives, and any causality determinations would guide updates to the official victim register.