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.

Protesters shouted "murderer" at Felipe VI, and the prime minister had to be evacuated as the crowd grew hostile.

Crews in Spain searched for flood survivors as teams stepped up efforts to pump water from flooded carparks into Monday, per Spanish outlet El País. Why it matters: The climate-change related flooding has killed 214 people as of Monday morning and building anger in affected communities over the government's response culminated in Valencia residents throwing mud and other objects at Spain's visiting King Felipe,

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.

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

King Felipe and Queen Letizia of Spain traveled to the flood-devastated town of Paiporta on Sunday, where Their Majesties were met with shouting and had mud thrown at them. However, rather than leaving,