Four people died on Thursday and many were missing as flooding in western Germany caused the collapse of at least six houses, bringing the death toll in two days of severe storms to six.
Police said four people had died and 30 were missing around the wine-growing hub of Ahrweiler, south of Bonn, after the Ahr river, which flows into the Rhine, burst its banks and brought down the houses.One local man fled to safety after a flood warning was issued at 2 a.m. .
Video footage from nearby Bad Neuenahr showed cars and trucks strewn across streets and one sport-utility vehicle perched on a fence, a road blocked by wreckage and fallen trees as flood waters receded on Thursday morning. Malu Dreyer, premier of the Rhineland-Palatinate state that is home to Ahrweiler, said the region had been hard hit by the flooding.
Dreyer said she would visit the scene of the flooding on Thursday and, in a statement, described some of the dangerous rescue operation. One police helicopter was deployed late on Wednesday to winch people to safety.Two firefighters died in the Sauerland region, in the neighbouring state of North Rhine-Westphalia, on Wednesday, police said. News agency DPA said one had drowned and a second had collapsed after a rescue operation.
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