VALENCIA, Spain (AP) — In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses. Many died and thousands of livelihoods were shattered.

Six days later, authorities have recovered 217 bodies — with 213 of them in the eastern Valencia region. They continued to search Monday for an unknown number of missing people with the help of some 5,000 fresh soldiers who arrived over the weekend.

An enraged crowd in hard-hit Paiporta hurled mud and other objects at Spain’s royals, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez and regional officials when the leaders made their first visit to the epicenter of the flood damage on Sunday.

More rain is forecast for the disaster zones as well as further up the Mediterranean coast where part of the region of Catalonia around the city of Tarragona is under red alert.