Flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate
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Laschet wants more protection against floods
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Armin Laschet says that dams, retention basins, water reservoirs and areas have to be renatured in order to improve protection against flooding.
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- NRW Prime Minister Laschet calls for climate protection to be combated faster and more consistently “here and around the world”.
- At least 156 people died in the storm in Germany, 110 of them in the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate, 45 in North Rhine-Westphalia and one person in the Berchtesgadener Land district.
- Chancellor Merkel has traveled to the disaster area.
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P. Wehner, J. Auel, J. Bergmann, E. Britzelmeier, A. Ernst, J. Hippert, O. Klasen and K. Stroh
In the areas affected by the flood disaster in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, the clean-up and salvage work will continue. The focus is on the search for missing people. Hours of heavy rain had led to a devastating flood. Several rivers and streams overflowed their banks, streets flooded and cellars filled with water. The disaster focuses on the Ahrweiler district in Rhineland-Palatinate and the Rhein-Erft district in North Rhine-Westphalia. The most important developments in news blog.
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