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Frontrunner to succeed Merkel sorry for laughing scene in visit to fatal floods
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July 18, 2021 5.44pm
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Berlin: The frontrunner to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany’s September election has apologised for a scene in which he was seen laughing in the background as the country’s president delivered a statement on the devastating floods in western Germany.
Armin Laschet, the candidate of Merkel’s centre-right Union bloc to be Germany’s next leader, is also the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia state one of two badly hit by last week’s floods. On Saturday (German time), he visited the town of Erfstadt, which was the scene of a dramatic rescue effort after the ground gave way, with President Frank-Walter Steinmeier.
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Death toll in devastating flooding in Germany and Belgium rose to at least 170 on July 17.
Flash floods this week have collapsed houses and ripped up roads and power lines.
ERFTSTADT: 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.
July 18, 2021 2 min read
The controversy is all the more significant as he is responsible for the northern Rhine-Westphalia in the west of the country, one of the two regions most affected by the disaster. Dozens of people perished there.
Ms Merkel was elated during the September 26 Assembly elections during a speech in tribute to Frank-Walter Steinmeier, leader of the Republican Party, the leader of the Christian Democratic Party (CDU).
Located behind the head of state, he is seen in almost 30 seconds of laughing scenes, accompanied by six people. The two were moving in the city of Erbstadt, which was particularly devastated by the floods.