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Mulartshütte in North Rhine-Westphalia: The Vichtbachtal campsite was completely devastated by the flood.
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A bridge over the Vichtbach was brought down by the water masses.
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Sandbags are lying next to road signs: Mulartshütte near Aachen is badly affected by the flood.
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Erftstadt: The North Rhine-Westphalian Interior Minister Herbert Reul (CDU) is standing on a bridge over the B265 between Lindlar and Erftstadt-Blessem.
The flood had trapped numerous vehicles on the federal highway.
On Monday, Reul got an idea of the current situation on site.
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Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) got an idea of the damage to the Steinbachtalsperre in North Rhine-Westphalia, which is now threatened by a dam burst - together with NRW Prime Minister Armin Laschet (CDU).
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Steinbachtalsperre in the Euskirchen district: "There is no longer any risk of a dam breaking," said the Cologne district government in the morning.
Experts had previously assessed the stability of the dam.
In the past two days, so much water had been drained and pumped out that the experts now assumed a stabilized situation, it said.
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Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler: In addition to the large number of dead and injured in the entire Ahrweiler district, the full extent of the damage is slowly becoming apparent.
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In the district town alone, the clean-up work is likely to take several months, according to the city of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler.
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Volunteers in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler provide residents and helpers with food and beverages.
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Damage in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler: After the storm disaster, the situation in the affected regions has stabilized.
The clean-up work progressed on Monday, but an unknown number of people are still missing.
According to the police, the number of dead in the particularly affected Ahrweiler district rose to 117, which means that more than 160 people died as a result of the storm.
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Federal Interior Minister Horst Seehofer (CSU) showed himself affected during a visit to the disaster area in the north of Rhineland-Palatinate.
"We are experiencing an incredible tragedy these days," he said in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, which was hard hit by the floods.
It is an exceptional situation, "which we can only cope with with all our efforts on site in a major national effort."
Accompanied by Federal Agriculture Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) and the Rhineland-Palatinate Interior Minister Roger Lewentz (SPD), Seehofer also got an impression of aid operations such as the construction of mobile drinking water systems by the Technical Relief Organization (THW).
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