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https://sg.news.yahoo.com/germany-belgium-flooding-more-50-185116197.html
At least 60 people have died and as many as 1,300 remain unaccounted as a result of freak flooding in western Germany and Belgium where some areas saw the highest rainfall in more than 100 years.
Two firefighters sent to rescue stranded residents are among the victims after relentless rain engorged rivers, breaking their banks and flooding homes across several states. Nine residents of an assisted living facility for people with disabilities were also among the dead.
Angela Merkel expressed her sorrow at the “disaster” taking place in her country. She said: “Heavy rain and flooding doesn’t capture what happened”.
“I grieve for those who have lost their lives in this disaster. We still don’t know the number. But it will be many.”
As the death toll climbed, officials in Ahrweiler, a rural district between Bonn and Koblenz, said it “currently assumed that around 1,300 people are missing.”
In a statement issued late on Thursday, the local authority said: “In the area of ââthe Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler alone there were over 1000 open missions - currently rescue missions are still ongoing. Due to the complex damage situation, a final assessment of the situation is currently not possible.”
German authorities confirmed that 28 people had died in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where six houses collapsed in the most serious single incident and scores still remain missing. At least 30 more are dead in North Rhine-Westphalia.
About 25 more houses are at risk of collapsing in the worst-affected district of Schuld bei Adenau in the hilly Eifel region near Bonn. Dozens of people in the district remained unaccounted for.
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/germany-belgium-flooding-more-50-185116197.html
At least 60 people have died and as many as 1,300 remain unaccounted as a result of freak flooding in western Germany and Belgium where some areas saw the highest rainfall in more than 100 years.
Two firefighters sent to rescue stranded residents are among the victims after relentless rain engorged rivers, breaking their banks and flooding homes across several states. Nine residents of an assisted living facility for people with disabilities were also among the dead.
Angela Merkel expressed her sorrow at the “disaster” taking place in her country. She said: “Heavy rain and flooding doesn’t capture what happened”.
“I grieve for those who have lost their lives in this disaster. We still don’t know the number. But it will be many.”
As the death toll climbed, officials in Ahrweiler, a rural district between Bonn and Koblenz, said it “currently assumed that around 1,300 people are missing.”
In a statement issued late on Thursday, the local authority said: “In the area of ââthe Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler alone there were over 1000 open missions - currently rescue missions are still ongoing. Due to the complex damage situation, a final assessment of the situation is currently not possible.”
German authorities confirmed that 28 people had died in the state of Rhineland-Palatinate, where six houses collapsed in the most serious single incident and scores still remain missing. At least 30 more are dead in North Rhine-Westphalia.
About 25 more houses are at risk of collapsing in the worst-affected district of Schuld bei Adenau in the hilly Eifel region near Bonn. Dozens of people in the district remained unaccounted for.
