Spanish authorities on Thursday said they found the body of a 56-year-old man who died after being swept away in floods in the eastern Valencia region last year, the country's deadliest such disaster in decades.

DNA analysis confirmed that a corpse found on Tuesday in the Turia river belonged to one of three people reported missing since the tragedy on Oct. 29 last year that killed more than 230 people, a Valencia court said in a statement.

The victim, like the two other missing people, "had already been declared legally dead" and so the death toll did not increase, the court added.

The water had dragged the body some 19 miles from the town of Pedralba to the municipality of Manises outside the regional capital Valencia, Spain's third-largest city.

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