Italy provided a team of civil protection officials, firefighters and rescue dinghies to Belgium to help search for missing people.
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“The images of the floods and devastation, the full extent of this disaster, leave us shocked and horrified,” the football organizations said in a joint statement Friday. “Our thoughts are with the relatives of the deceased, the injured and the many people in need.” The German military deployed over 850 troops Friday morning, but the number is “rising significantly because the need is growing,” Arne Collatz, the defense ministry spokesman, said.īoth the German Football Association and the German Football League pledged a total of 3 million euros - $3.5 million - to German flood victims. According to geographer Matthias Habel, the river rushed into a gravel pit, which gave way after it could no longer handle the water.
The heavy rain Thursday flooded the Erft river and the town. Several homes and part of a castle in Blessem, located near Cologne, in Erftstadt were destroyed when the ground beneath suddenly sank. Aerial images show massive sinkhole in Germany Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland have also seen rivers swell under heavy rains. Residents of Erftstadt, a German town southwest of Cologne, were also trapped in their homes after aerial photos showed what appeared to be a huge landslide at a gravel pit. Belgium estimates its death toll to be 20, and warned it may increase.
The Belgium city of Liege was also hit hard, with numerous people drowning. View Gallery: Deadly floods in Europe rage through Germany, Belgium Where is the flooding in Germany, Belgium?Ĭities along the Rhine River were among those hit hardest, with the German states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia accounting for most of the death toll.
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