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ERFTSTADT, Germany – 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 week collapsed houses and ripped up roads and power lines.
Some 143 people died in the flooding in Germany’s worst natural disaster in more than half a century. That included about 98 in the Ahrweiler district south of Cologne, according to police.
Hundreds of people were still missing or unreachable as several areas were inaccessible due to high water levels while communication in some places was still down.
Residents and business owners struggled to pick up the pieces in battered towns.
German floods kill more than 1302021|01:31
Water levels remained high in parts of western Germany on Saturday (July 17) as rescue workers continued their search for survivors of the country s worst natural disaster in half a century. The past several days of flooding have cut off entire communities power and communications, and collapsed homes. And, according to police estimates early on Saturday, at least 133 people have died. That includes some 90 people in the Ahrweiler district south of Cologne and hundreds remain missing. Late on Friday (July 16) around 700 people were evacuated after a dam broke in the town of Wassenberg near Cologne, authorities said. Flooding also continues to hit Belgium, where at least 20 people have died, and the Netherlands. German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier and Armin Laschet, state premier of North Rhine-Westphalia, were due in one of the hardest hit towns Erftstadt on Saturday. Laschet is the ruling CDU party s candidate in September s general e
Son dakika! Almanya Cumhurbaşkanı Steinmeier ve başbakan adayı Laschet in afet bölgesine ziyareti sosyal medyada tartışılıyor
18 Temmuz 2021 Pazar 02:40
Son dakika gündem haberi: Almanya Cumhurbaşkanı Frank-Walter Steinmeier ile 26 Eylül de yapılacak genel seçimlerde Şansölye Angela Merkel in yerine aday olan Kuzey-Ren Vestfalya eyaleti Başbakanı Armin Laschet in selin neden olduğu afet bölgesine birlikte yaptıkları ziyaret sırasında güldükleri anların kameralara.
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Cumhurbaşkanı Frank-Walter Steinmeier ile 26 Eylül de yapılacak genel seçimlerde Şansölye
Angela Merkel in yerine aday olan Kuzey-Ren Vestfalya eyaleti Başbakanı Armin Laschet in selin neden olduğu afet bölgesine birlikte yaptıkları ziyaret sırasında güldükleri anların kameralara yansıması sosyal medyada tartışmaya sebep oldu.
In Altenahr in western Germany, even the dead were not spared in this week s devastating flood. The village cemetery was swept away, headstones damaged and toppled by the force of the muddy water. Antoinnette Steinhoff stands at the edge of the flooded graveyard, crushed by the sight of destruction in front of her. My mother is over there, she says, pointing at a black marble grave with a cross on top. When the flooding hit the village, the 76-year-old saw an entire house dragged away by the water. Two people were still inside, Steinhoff said They found one of the bodies up in the vineyard, she added.