A man walk on a road amid destroyed houses after the floods caused major damage in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, western Germany, on July 16, 2021 (CHRISTOF STACHE / AFP)
SCHULD, Germany (AFP) Aware that a storm was brewing, Cornelia Schloesser quickly installed a water pump in the cellar of her bakery.
But “within minutes, a wave was in the house” and she lost the business her family had held for a century in Schuld, a village in flood-hit western Germany that now looks like a battlefield.
“The oven is just junk now,” she said as she examined the extent of the damage from torrents of water unleashed in a violent storm overnight Wednesday, killing more than 100 people in two western German regions.
PEPINSTER: Austrian firefighters steer a boat in a flooded street in Belgium on Friday. AFP
SCHULD (Germany): Devastating floods have torn through entire villages and killed at least 126 people in Europe, most of them in western Germany where stunned emergency services were still combing the wreckage on Friday.
Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the “flood of death” by German newspaper Bild.
Streets and houses were submerged by water in some areas, while cars were left overturned on soaked streets after floodwaters passed. Some districts were completely cut off.
“Everything was under water within 15 minutes,” Agron Berischa, a 21-year-old decorator from Bad Neuenahr in Rhineland-Palatinate state, said.
Floods leave at least 126 dead in Europe
July 17, 2021
SCHULD, Germany: The death toll from devastating floods in Europe soared to at least 126 on Friday, most in western Germany where emergency responders were frantically searching for missing people.
Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the “flood of death” by Germany’s top-selling daily Bild. Streets and houses were submerged by water in some areas, while cars were left overturned on soaked streets after flood waters passed. Some districts were completely cut off from the outside world.
“Everything was under water within 15 minutes,” Agron Berischa, a 21-year-old decorator from Bad Neuenahr in Rhineland-Palatinate state, told AFP.
By JEAN PHILIPPE LACOUR WITH FEMKE COLBORNE, Agence France-Presse
Published July 17, 2021 7:19am
Aerial view taken on July 15, 2021 shows the flooded village of Schuld, near Adenau, western Germany, after heavy rains and floods caused damage and tore down houses. At least 128 people died in the flooding in Europe, most of them in western Germany. Christoph Reichwein/ dpa/ AFP SCHULD, Germany - Devastating floods have torn through entire villages and killed at least 128 people in Europe, most of them in western Germany where stunned emergency services were still combing the wreckage on Friday. Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the flood of death by German newspaper Bild.
Saturday, 17 Jul 2021 07:04 AM MYT
Austrian rescue team members pole their boat as they go through an area affected by floods, following heavy rainfalls, in Pepinster, Belgium July 16, 2021. Reuters pic
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SCHULD (Germany), July 17 Devastating floods have torn through entire villages and killed at least 128 people in Europe, most of them in western Germany where stunned emergency services were still combing the wreckage yesterday.
Unsuspecting residents were caught completely off guard by the torrent dubbed the “flood of death” by German newspaper Bild.
Streets and houses were submerged by water in some areas, while cars were left overturned on soaked streets after flood waters passed. Some districts were completely cut off.