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Death Toll From Floods in Germany Rises to 156, Reports Suggest

© AFP 2023 / CHRISTOF STACHEA worker (L) takes a picture of a destroyed area in Insul near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 17, 2021. - Devastating floods in Germany and other parts of western Europe have been described as a "catastrophe", a "war zone" and "unprecedented", with more than 150 people dead and the toll still climbing on July 17, 2021
A worker (L) takes a picture of a destroyed area in Insul near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 17, 2021. - Devastating floods in Germany and other parts of western Europe have been described as a catastrophe, a war zone and unprecedented, with more than 150 people dead and the toll still climbing on July 17, 2021 - Sputnik International, 1920, 18.07.2021
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BERLIN (Sputnik) - The number of people who have died as a result of floods caused by extreme rainfall in Germany stands at 156, the Bild newspaper reports.
As of Sunday morning, the death toll in the southwestern German state of Rhineland-Palatinate stands at 110, Bild said, citing the Koblenz police department which has reported 12 new fatalities.
A photo taken on July 15, 2021 shows water from the overflooded river Inde flowing into the opencast mine in Inden, western Germany, following heavy rains. - On July 15, the flood-carrying river Inde flooded a dike near the mine in Inden near Aachen and flowed into the mine. Heavy rains and floods lashing western Europe have killed at least 59 people in Germany and eight in Belgium, and many more people are missing as rising waters caused several houses to collapse. - Sputnik International, 1920, 17.07.2021
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More than 110 people have died and 670 others were injured in the district of Ahrweiler alone, according to updated information released by the Koblenz police department on Sunday morning.
On Saturday night, an emergency was declared in the district of Berchtesgadener Land in Germany’s Bavaria amid heavy rains and flooding. Floods were also reported in Germany’s Saxon Switzerland late on Saturday and Deutsche Bahn said that railway service was being suspended on the Dresden-Prague route until Sunday afternoon amid flooding and landslides in the region.
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