(ANSA) - BERLIN, JULY 15 - At least 11 people have died and 70 are missing due to heavy rains and floods that hit western Germany, where six houses have been swept away by a river: the online Bild writes today.
The Laender most affected are North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate. Four people died in Eifel in the district of Ahrweiler, while in Solingen two men were killed in the cellar and the same fate befell a man and a woman in Cologne. Among the victims there are also two firefighters, who died while providing assistance.
The heavy rain, which fell continuously in the last hours, caused the flooding of all the small and medium-sized water courses of the Laender in the Saarland, Westphalia and the Rhineland. Over the hours, the level of the Moselle also rises, and there is a lot of attention to the conditions of the Rhine. Firefighters are engaged in hundreds of interventions, including to rescue people trapped in houses due to floods. In addition, it is estimated that around 200 million people were left without electricity. (HANDLE).