Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, King Felipe VI, and Queen Letizia was attacked by angry residents on Sunday during their visit to the town of Paiporta were more than 60 people lost their lives to the devastating flood that hit the area.
Report says after the king other senior politicians were also attacked.
According to Spanish broadcaster RTVE, Sanchez was evacuated shortly after officials began walking through the mud-covered streets, trying to talk to residents.
Police, some on horseback, had to intervene to hold back dozens of people who brandished shovels and hurled mud.
“The king seems to have become some sort of lightning rod for people’s anger here as they look towards some form of authority to try and explain the disastrous situation here,” Al Jazeera media network report.
Some journalist also say five days after terrifying floods that razed towns in eastern Spain and killed at least 214 people, frustration at the government’s response is mounting, even as Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez promised to “improve” recovery efforts with the deployment of 10,000 soldiers and police officers.
Authorities in the hard-hit province of Valencia said on Sunday that hopes of finding more survivors are fading after torrents of muddy water wrecked towns and infrastructure, killing at least 211 people in the region, along with two others in Castilla La Mancha and one in Andalusia.
Authorities fear that more bodies could be recovered from underground garages.
The tragedy is already Europe’s worst flood-related disaster since 1967 when at least 500 people died in Portugal.