APOCALYPSE IN EUROPE| GERMANY destroyed by floods| crazy footages caught on camera| SEVERE FLOOD.

German emergency services stepped up their search for hundreds of people who are still missing after the worst flooding in the country’s postwar history caused 93 deaths and left a trail of devastation in its wake. ⁠
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Rivers across parts of western Germany burst their banks after days of heavy rain turned them into raging torrents that swept away houses, destroyed bridges and roads and left several town centres in ruins. ⁠
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International train services from Germany to Belgium were also affected. Thousands remained without electricity, and some districts were without fresh water. ⁠
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The death toll rose again on Friday when local authorities in Erftstadt-Blessem, south-west of Cologne, said a number of people had died after flood damage caused their houses to collapse. Gas leaks were complicating rescue efforts.⁠
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German interior minister Horst Seehofer told Der Spiegel magazine that the government would provide financial aid to the affected regions as quickly as possible, and a support programme would be put before the German cabinet on Wednesday. ⁠
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Seehofer, one of Germany’s veteran politicians, said that “in my entire political career in Germany I have never seen such a flood with such terrible consequences, with so many deaths and so many people missing”. ⁠


Clean-up and rescue efforts continue in the town of Schuld in Germany's mountainous Eifel area after devastating floods that killed over 150 people in western Germany, with emergency services continuing to search for hundreds of people still missing in the worst-hit states of Nordrhein-Westfalen and Rheinland-Pfalz.

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