GERMANY: PERSISTANT RAIN CONTINUES TO CAUSE HEAVY FLOODING IN MANY PARTS OF GERMANY

Record ID: 501058

  • Title: GERMANY: PERSISTANT RAIN CONTINUES TO CAUSE HEAVY FLOODING IN MANY PARTS OF GERMANY
  • Date: 2nd November 1998
  • Summary: WERTHEIM, GERMANY (NOVEMBER 2, 1998) (RTV) GV CLOSED, FLOODED ROAD MV TECHNICAL EMERGENCY WORKERS (THW) WITH RUBBER DINGHYS IN FLOODED STREET SLV PEOPLE WALKING ON TEMPORARILY ERECTED WALKWAYS TRAVELLING SHOT THW-WORKERS WITH RUBBER DINGHY IN FLOODED STREET (2 SHOTS) SLV MEN MOVING PARKED CAR AWAY FROM FLOODED STREET SLV WOMAN CARRYING GERMAN SHEPHERD DOG THROUGH FLOODS SV'S WOMEN WITH GROCERIES IN RUBBER DINGHY (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS OF MEN PUSHING DINGHY THROUGH STREET SLV WATER PUMPED OUT OF BASEMENT/ SV WOMEN ARRIVING ON DINGHY (2 SHOTS) UNKNOWN LOCATION, GERMANY SLV BOAT MOVING ALONG FAST-MOVING RIVER SLV BARGE ON RIVER GV BARGE ON RIVER MILTENBERG, GERMANY (NOVEMBER 2, 1998) (RTV) WIDE OF RIVER, PAN TO HOUSES PARTLY SUBMERGED IN WATER HAS MEN AROUND PROTECTIVE WALL ERECTED AROUND BEER GARDEN CLOSE-UP MARKER IN WATER LV/SLV PEOPLE WALKING ON WALKWAY (2 SHOTS) OVERATH, GERMANY (NOVEMBER 2, 1998) (RTV) SCU/PAN UP FLOODED AREA (2 SHOTS) VARIOUS OF POLICEMEN AND DIVERS IN WETSUITS SEARCHING NEARBY RIVER "HOLZBACH" WITH THE AIDE OF DOGS AND SHOVELS (4 SHOTS) SV/SLV POLICEMEN SEARCHING RIVER (2 SHOTS)
  • Embargoed: 17th November 1998 12:00
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  • Location: WERTHEIM, MILTENBERG AND OVERATH, GERMANY
  • Country: Germany
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA7ZYLD5RB8N0S22XT4E9BQMTGE
  • Story Text: Police in Germany say they have recovered the body of a four-year-old flood victim and feared four other boys had drowned after persistent rains caused heavy floods in many parts of the country Police in the western town of Kaiserslautern said on Monday (November 2) the four-year-old boy fell in a stream in the nearby village of Horschbach and was carried away by the current.
    His body was recovered several kilometres (miles) downstream later that day, they said.
    At least another four boys have gone missing over the last two days.They were all last seen near rivers.
    Hundreds of rescue workers combed flooded river banks in search of the four boys, but police said they held out little hope of finding them alive.
    In the Rhine and Mosel river basins, hundreds of rescue workers and volunteers worked round the clock to reinforce dikes and flood barriers.
    In the Bavarian town of Wertheim, the rivers Main and Tauber flooded their banks overnight and gushed into the old town centres.
    And in the southern town of Zell the Mosel spilled over dikes and inundated the centre with 1.5 metres (yards) of water.
    Residents in the western town of Koblenz, where the Rhine and Mosel meet, were ready to evacuate the area if river levels rose much higher and caused serious flooding.
    Basements and bicycle paths along the rivers have been flooded over the last few days.
    Shipping traffic on the busy Rhine has been suspended in the area since Saturday.
    And accoring to the Duisburg water authorities, Rhine water levels were still rising.
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