S pain’s King Felipe and Queen Letizia often receive a warm welcome at public events. But this time, people were angry and threw mud at the Spanish royals instead. On Sunday, No

Hundreds of residents of a Valencia suburb particularly badly hit by last week's deadly floods protested on Sunday during a visit by Spanish King Felipe and Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez, with some throwing mud at them.

Survivors of Spain’s worst flooding in decades heckled and appeared to throw projectiles at the Spanish royal couple and government officials visiting the disaster’s epicenter Sunday, according to reports.

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.

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.

Crowd of angry survivors of Spain's floods tossed mud and shouted insults at Spain's King Felipe VI and government officials as they visited hard-hit towns.