The situation in the flood-hit area of Germany's Saarland region is continuing to ease."The water levels are falling almost everywhere, and the clean-up work is beginning," a spokesman for the Saarland Ministry of the Interior said on .
Enormous amounts of rain in Saarland and neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate on Friday and Saturday night caused flooding and landslides, but water levels were slowly retreating on Sunday making the extent of the damage more visible.