Berlin: At least 19 people have died and dozens of people are missing in Germany after a heavy flood change the flow and the streets become a raging torrent, sweeping the cars that collapse.
Authorities in Western District Euskirchen said on Thursday that eight deaths had been reported there in connection with flooding.
Rescue operations are hampered by the fact that the telephone and internet connection are in the area, which is the southwest of Cologne.
Police in the western city of Koblenz said four people had died at Ahrweiler County, and about 50 were trapped on the roof of their house waiting for rescue.
Six houses had fainted overnight in the village of Schuld.
“Many people have reportedly disappeared to us,” police said.
The heavy flood changes the flow and the streets become a raging torrent, sweeping the car and causing several buildings to collapse.
(Ap) Schuld is located in Eifel, the volcanic area of ​​the Bukit rolling and the small cologne small valley.
The full level of damage in the area is still unclear after many villages are cut off by flood water and landslides that make roads unusual.
The video posted on social media shows a car that floats on the streets and houses partially collapsed in several places.
The authorities have declared an emergency in the region after heavy rainfall days which also affected most of the West and Central Germany, as well as neighboring countries, causing widespread damage.
Police said four people died in a separate incident after their basement was flooded with Cologne, Kamen and Wuppertal, where the authorities warned that the dam threatened to explode.
Authorities in South Rhine-Sieg District Cologne ordered the evacuation from several villages under the reservoir Steinbachtal amid fears of dams there could also break.
A firefighter drowned Wednesday during the rescue work in the West German Altene City and the others collapsed during rescue operations at the power plant in Werdohl-Elverlingsen.
A man was lost in East City Joehstadt after disappearing when trying to secure his property from the water that rose, the authorities said.
The train connection is suspended in most North-Rhine Westphalia, the most solid state of Germany.
The Governor of Armin Laschet, who was running to replace Angela Merkel as a Chancellor in the German election of the fall, is expected to visit the city of Hagen who was exposed to flooding later on Thursday.
The German weather service DWD predicts rainfall will subside Thursday.
Rainless rain all night worsened the condition of the flood in East Belgium, where one person was reported to sink and at least the other missing.
Some cities see the surface of the water rise to an unprecedented level and have their centers turned into a radiating river.
A road is flooded due to a continuous storm, at Esch, Germany.
(Ap) The main highway is flooded and in the south and east of the country, the train service says all traffic is stopped, adding that “alternative transport is very unlikely.” In Eupen Timur, on the German border, a man reportedly died after he was swept away by a torrent, a local governor told RTBF Network.
In Liege, the main city in East Belgium, the Meuse River can destroy its banks in the afternoon and shed to the heart of the city.
The police warned residents to take prevention steps.
Authorities in the South Holland City Valkenburg, close to the border of Germany and Belgium, evacuating home care and hospitals overnight in the midst of floods that change the city’s main road to the river, the Dutch media reported.
The Dutch government sent around 70 troops to South Province Limburg at the end of Wednesday to help with tasks including transporting transportation and filling sandbags when the river exploded their banks.
There are no reports of injuries related to flooding in the Netherlands.
Extraordinary intense rain has also flooded the Northeast French plot this week, wins the tree and imposes the closure of dozens of roads.
The train route to Luxembourg was disrupted, and firefighters evacuated dozens of people from houses near Luxembourg and German borders and in the Marne region, according to local broadcasters France Bleu.
Equivalent to two months rain has fallen in several regions in the past or two days, according to French national weather services.
With the soil already saturated, the service estimates more rain Thursday and issues flood warnings for 10 regions.