The number of people killed in floods in western Germany jumped to 103, from 93, bringing the total number of flood victims in western Europe to at least 117, the authorities said on Friday, while Germany’s largest electricity distribution company (SE:5110) said that 114 were out of power. A house in the west of the country.
Fears of more flooding escalated in western Germany on Friday, with another dam potentially damaged and cracking, in Germany’s worst mass death in years.
Entire regions were reduced to rubble after rivers flooded towns and villages in the states of North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.