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Jul 14, 2021 10:53 PM EDT
(Photo : Photo by Roberto Pfeil/picture alliance via Getty Images) dpatop - 14 July 2021, North Rhine-Westphalia, Leichlingen: A resident of the village of Balken looks at the flood waters of the Wupper. Due to the heavy rainfall during the day, the river had become a raging torrent. Photo: Roberto Pfeil/dpa
German authorities reported that a fireman drowned, and the deployment of the army was warranted to assist residents who were left stranded on Wednesday after the occurence of massive floods which resulted from heavy rain in the western parts of the country.
An extreme weather warning was issued by the German Weather Service for parts of three states in the western region. Hagen, a city with a population of 180,000, declared a state of emergency after authorities noted the bursting of the Volme river s banks.
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SPA (Belgium): A view of a flooded street after heavy rains lashed this city on Wednesday. AFP
BERLIN: Storms caused heavy flooding across parts of western and central Europe overnight, and a man swept away by a raging stream in eastern Germany remained missing on Wednesday.
Firefighters resumed their search for the man in the Saxony state town of Joehstadt on Wednesday morning. German news agency
dpa reported that he had been trying to secure his property from rising waters when he disappeared.
Firefighters in the city of Hagen, in the North Rhine-Westphalia state, rescued several drivers whose vehicles got stuck in a flooded underpass. Videos on social media showed streets in the western German city filled with knee-high water and others buried by landslides.