“My heart goes out to all of those who in this catastrophe lost their loved ones, or who are still worrying about the fate of people still missing,” she said.Īmong the worst-hit German villages was Schuld, where several homes collapsed and dozens of people remained unaccounted for. Speaking at the White House, Merkel said the day was “characterised by fear, by despair, by suffering, and hundreds of thousands of people all of a sudden were faced with catastrophe”. She said the number of dead was likely to rise further. German Chancellor Angela Merkel, on a visit to Washington, DC, voiced her shock at the scope of the flooding, saying “I grieve for those who have lost their lives in this disaster”. In a provisional tally, the Belgian death toll has risen to 12, with 5 people still missing, local authorities and media report early on Friday.
About 1,300 people were still reported missing, though authorities said efforts to contact them could be hampered by disrupted roads and phone connections. In neighbouring North Rhine-Westphalia state officials put the death toll at dozens, and warned that the figure could rise further. The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany has risen to 93, according to local authorities, pushing the total toll of flooding in Western Europe past 100, as the search continued for hundreds of people still unaccounted for.Īuthorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate said scores of people had died there, including at least nine residents of an assisted living facility for people with disabilities.
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