PAIPORTA, Spain (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.
Spain’s national broadcaster reported that the barrage included a few rocks and other objects and that two bodyguards were treated for injuries. One could be seen with a bloody wound on his forehead.
It was an unprecedented incident for a royal house that carefully crafts the image of monarchs adored by their country of more than 48 million people.
Spanish fury has been unleashed against a state that appears overwhelmed and
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