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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 ...
Widespread flooding has left at least 11 dead in Belgium, RTBF said on July 15, with red alerts in place in several provinces.Evacuations were in place for areas along the Vesdre River, local ...
On 10 March, five people were killed by floods following violent storms across southern France, [28] with seven others reported missing. [29] On 31 March, heavy rainfall lead to the severe flooding of the town of Montmorillon. [30] Floods in Central France affected the departments of Yonne and Saône-et-Loire in April. [31]
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 ...
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]
Floods started in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland on 14 July 2021 after record rainfall across western Europe caused multiple rivers to burst their banks. [ 15 ] The European Flood Awareness System (EFAS) issued alerts of life-threatening floods in advance, which, although very vague, were delivered to national authorities.
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 ...
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.