Spain's King Felipe VI and top government officials were pelted with mud by a crowd of enraged flood survivors during the first visit by the country's leaders Sunday to the epicenter of the nation's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.

They came by bus, by tractor or on foot. They waded through mud hoping to help clean up neighborhoods washed away by floodwaters that have killed at least 214 people. Thousands of Spanish citizens made their way to flood-ravaged Valencia over the weekend after the country’s worst natural disaster in recent history left the nation shocked by images of overturned cars and brick homes torn apart by furious water.

Valencia residents living among ruins and dead bodies decry the response of authorities to the disaster — and brace for more rain.

Spain’s King Felipe VI, center, leaves the scene after crowd of angry survivors of Spain’s floods have tossed mud and shouted insults at the king and government officials when they made their first visit to one of the hardest hit towns, near Valencia, Spain, Sunday, Nov. 3, 2024. (Hugo Torres/AP)

A crowd of enraged survivors hurled clots of mud left by storm-spawned flooding at the Spanish royal couple on Sunday during their first visit to the epicenter of their nation's deadliest natural disaster in living memory.

King Felipe VI and Queen Letizia of Spain have been visiting Valencia, where large parts of the city have been destroyed by huge flood waters and heavy rains