BPeople lost their lives when houses in Erftstadt-Blessem collapsed. “Someone died,” a spokesman for the Cologne District Government said on Friday. House cleaning in the village has been carried out on a large scale and progressed rapidly.Show aerial photos and photos taken by dpa photographers distributed by the district government landslide Huge proportions. The house was washed away and disappeared. The car lay in a large newly opened hole in the ground, next to the concrete part of the old sewer system. People were trapped in cars on flooded streets.
According to Frank Rock (CDU), the district administrator in charge of the Rhein-Erft district, the situation is still confusing. Rock said on Friday that he still does not have a specific number of deaths or missing persons. Fifty people were rescued by the boat, but the people also returned to their evacuated houses. The tide comes very fast. Within ten minutes, the sink will be flooded. There is almost no time to warn people. “This is a catastrophic situation we have never had here before,” Rock said. The disaster prevention and reconnaissance team has arrived at the scene. “We are currently experiencing a crisis and cannot assess its scale today,” Locke said on Thursday.
Emergency calls keep coming from the house. However, the authorities have previously announced that people can only be rescued from the water by boat. In addition, gas leaks make rescue work more difficult. Several nursing homes will be evacuated. A spokesperson for the district government could not disclose how many people were missing. The situation is confusing. The disaster prevention and reconnaissance team has arrived at the scene.
In contrast, despite the Rur dam in Eifel, the situation eased slightly overnight. On Friday morning, a spokesperson for the Durham Fire Department said: “Rur only increased slightly during the night.” “Due to the increase, there are no additional tasks.” Therefore, there are no tasks in Dylan City on Friday morning.
“People fled their buildings”
At the same time, the death toll in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate has risen to more than 100. Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister Maru Dreyer said on Friday that 60 people are now dead in her country. The state of North Rhine-Westphalia previously reported 43 deaths.
Minister of the Interior of Rhineland-Palatinate Roger Levents (SPD) It is expected that the rescue work in Rhineland-Palatinate will find more rescuers dead. Lewentz told Deutschlandfunk on Friday that the death toll has now exceeded 50. From the police’s point of view, fewer than 100 people are missing. Regarding the question of how the state’s death toll will develop, he did not provide information on a total of 1,300 missing persons. “Yesterday, however, was a difficult day to get an overview. People fled their buildings,” he said. The North Rhine-Westphalia Interior Ministry in Düsseldorf said on Friday that the death toll of 43 people so far is “dynamic” and may change at any time.
At the same time, the Rhineland-Palatinate Prime Minister broke into Maru Dreyer (SPD) to help the federal government deal with the consequences of severe weather disasters. “The suffering in our state is enormous. Our state has never seen anything like this,” Dreyer said in ZDF’s Morgan Magazine on Friday. Obviously, the federal states alone cannot solve this disaster, especially the municipalities. “This is a long way to go. It’s also an expensive way.” Dreyer called it “reassuring,” and the federal government has promised to help. The Social Democratic Party politician also called for greater efforts to protect the climate. This “crazy” has blown all over the space without any precautions. Therefore, the most important thing is that the cause of this situation must now be eliminated. “Anyone who has not yet understood the consequences of climate change will be of no avail.”
Due to flooding, train traffic in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate continues to be severely affected. Deutsche Bahn announced in Dusseldorf on Friday that many routes are completely closed or only accessible within a limited range. “In many places in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate, water masses have severely damaged tracks, points, signal technology, railway stations and signal boxes.” Only in North Rhine-Westphalia In the state of Falun, the track length exceeded approximately 600 kilometers and was affected. The determination of the damage is still in full swing.
