A crowd of furious flood survivors threw mud and shouted insults at King Felipe VI as he visited a devastated town in Spain’s Valencia region.

The monarch was accompanied by government officials who tried to talk to locals in Paiporta, which experienced around a year’s worth of rain in just hours on Tuesday.

Protesters were seen throwing handfuls of mud, stones, and a glass jar towards the king and his entourage.

The monarch later asked his officials to close their umbrellas so he could speak to groups of angry residents who survived Tuesday’s floods.

Spanish police were then forced to step in with officers on horseback keeping the crowd away from the king.

Nearly all of the 211 deaths have been in the Valencia region, where thousands of security and emergency services frantically cleared debris and mud in the search for bodies.

Describing “the worst natural disaster in the recent history of our country,” Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said it was the second deadliest flood in Europe this century.

The monarchs’ visit came as Spain’s meteorological agency issued a fresh warning for heavy downpours in the Valencia region.