BREAKING: The death toll in Europe has risen to more than 125 after flooding devastated parts of western Germany and Belgium.
Authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate said 63 people had died there, including 12 residents of an assisted living facility for disabled people in the town of Sinzig who were surprised by a sudden rush of water from the nearby Ahr River. In neighboring North Rhine-Westphalia state officials put the death toll at 43, but warned that the figure could increase.
“We managed to get 50 people out of their houses last night,” county administrator Frank Rock told German broadcaster n-tv.“One has to assume that under the circumstances some people didn’t manage to escape,” Rock said. The governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, who is hoping to succeed Chancellor Angela Merkel as the nation’s leader after Germany’s election on Sept. 26, said the disaster had caused immense economic damage to the country’s most densely populated state.
“Climate change isn’t abstract anymore. We are experiencing it up close and painfully,” she told the Funke media group.“Only if we decisively take up the fight against climate change will we be able to limit the extreme weather conditions we are now experiencing,” he said.“Some parts of Western Europe ... received up to two months of rainfall in the space of two days.
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