Germany floods: Merkel voices horror at ‘catastrophe’ amid search for estimated 1,300 missing

Flood devastation in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in western Germany. More than 1,300 people are believed missing in floods in the district of Ahrweiler. Photograph: Bernd Lauter/AFP/Getty Images

Flood devastation in Schuld near Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in western Germany. More than 1,300 people are believed missing in floods in the district of Ahrweiler. Photograph: Bernd Lauter/AFP/Getty Images

source https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/16/western-germany-floods-angela-merkel-horror-catastrophe-deaths-missing-search-flooding-belgium