Grieving relatives will join political leaders Wednesday for a state memorial service in Spain for the more than 230 victims of last year’s floods on the anniversary of the disaster.

King Felipe VI will lead mourners at the ceremony, which is set to get underway at 6:00 pm (1700 GMT) in Valencia, Spain’s third-largest city on the Mediterranean coast.

Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez and regional leader Carlos Mazon — who is under fire over his response to Spain’s deadliest floods in a generation — are also expected to attend.

Joining them will be mayors from the 78 municipalities hit by the floods, mostly in the southern outskirts of Valencia, and around 800 relatives of the victims.

The event will take place at a museum in the City of Arts and Sciences, a cultural and architectural comple

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