On Sunday, residents of Paiporta, the town most severely affected by Spain’s disastrous floods, threw their rage at King Felipe VI by yelling the heartbreaking question, “How many have died?”

With at least 217 fatalities and an unknown number of people still missing, Tuesday’s torrential rains created Spain’s biggest calamity in decades.

According to AFP, the monarch, Queen Letizia, and lawmakers who were at the 25,000-person town in the Valencia area were greeted with mudslinging, yells of “murderers!” and jeers.

The crowd’s targets were Valencia regional government president Carlos Mazon, a member of the right-wing Popular Party, and Socialist Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez.

The leaders’ first formal visit five days after the destruction occurred came too late for the inhabitants of Paiporta, where authorities claim more than 70 people killed and an undetermined number remain missing.

Hundreds of people raced to the black cars as the formal convoy pulled into the streets, which were still covered with mud and debris. One individual even yelled obscenities at the prime minister.

The monarchs pushed into the throng as overburdened police officers attempted to protect them, while concerned security personnel swept Sanchez and Mazon away.

Some young people yelled, “These are murders, not deaths,” while another guy, who was crying, urged the royal couple to leave the area.

As Felipe attempted to go a few more feet while wearing a jacket and having his face and hair splattered with muck, tensions increased.

One young man in a yellow jacket remarked, “The people would have supported you if you had come on the first day and put on your boots.” “Over there, there are dead people!” he continued.

Letizia, whose nose and forehead were also scraped by the dirt, heard a small girl nearby yell, “There are dead children, aren’t you ashamed?”

King Felipe stated that the nation needed to “understand the anger and frustration” of those in the disaster area after departing Paiporta, according to AFP.

The monarch urged people to provide the victims “hope and their guarantee that the state in its entirety is present” in a social media video.

Even when police and emergency personnel arrived, residents of the southern neighbourhood of

Authorities are also accused of not issuing severe weather warnings in a timely manner.

As the prime minister departed, the crowd screamed, “Where is Pedro Sanchez, where is he?”

The monarchs tried to get back into their cars after traversing a section of one of the town’s avenues that had been transformed into a cemetery of debris, tangled automobiles, and mounds of muck.

Before leaving the village to face its struggles, they stopped and spoke with additional locals while being watched by their anxious security crew.