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The Blessem district of Erftstadt, Germany, was one of the areas devastated by recent floods.
Devastating floods which have claimed the lives of nearly 200 people in western Europe are a grim ‘reminder’ the same could happen in Scotland.
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa), which has responsibility for issuing flood warnings in Scotland, said lessons can be learned from flooding events which have decimated communities across Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands in recent days.
Many in western Europe were not prepared for the severity of the floods.
But officials in the hardest hit areas defended flood alert procedures.
However, German economy minister Peter Altmaier told the Bild newspaper lessons would be learned from the tragic events.