The death toll from the devastating floods in Germany climbed again on Saturday, reaching at least 133 dead, police said. Belgium has recorded 24 deaths.
“According to current information 90 people lost their lives during the disaster”, in the region of Rhineland-Palatinate alone, one of the most affected, police said in Koblenz. This comes on top of the 43 deaths in North Rhine-Westphalia, another German region hit by the disaster. “It is feared that we will discover more deaths,” said local German authorities.
Torrential rains of unprecedented violence
In Belgium, the latest official report communicated this Saturday by the authorities reports at least 24 dead. The Belgian crisis center, which centralizes data at the national level, no longer communicates figures of missing persons, explained a spokesperson, who underlined the difficulty of reaching a large number of people due to power cuts and telephone network disturbances.
Germany and Belgium faced, between July 14 and 15, torrential rains of unprecedented violence, which caused sudden floods invading inhabited areas and destroying many localities. The Netherlands and Luxembourg have also been affected, without recording any deaths so far.