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FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) -A firefighter died while trying to rescue trapped residents and several thousand people were forced to leave their homes as heavy rain caused flooding in southern ...
In June 2024, significant flooding struck Southern Germany, striking the most in Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria.Dozens of villages had to be evacuated across Baden-Württemberg and Bavaria due to the straining and potential failure of several dams and dykes caused by the persistent heavy rainfall. [8]
ERFTSTADT, Germany/WASSENBERG, Germany (Reuters) -The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this ...
As the death toll from flooding in Germany passed 100, and more than a thousand people remained missing, striking aerial photos from the town of Erftstadt-Blessem showed the scale of devastation ...
The 2024 Central European floods were a series of floods caused by a record heavy rainfall generated by Storm Boris, an extremely humid Genoa low. The flooding began in Austria and the Czech Republic, then spread to Poland, Romania and Slovakia, and then onwards to Germany and Hungary. As of 28 September 2024, 27 fatalities have been reported.
[76] [77] The flooding damaged the Königssee bobsleigh, luge, and skeleton track where it washed away part of the track that will take until October 2022 to rebuild. [78] Direct damage caused by the flooding in Germany was estimated at €33.4 billion (US$39.3 billion) with further €7.1 billion (US$8.36 billion) in indirect damage. [79]
More than 20 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighboring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars ...
At least 125 people have died and as many as 1,500 remain unaccounted for after catastrophic floods raged across Germany, Belgium and neighboring countries this week — turning streets into ...