Four dead as floods sweep southern Germany
Al Jazeera
Rescuers battled to evacuate people from flooded areas in southern Germany that have claimed four lives, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it a “warning” that climate change was getting worse.
Thousands of people in the regions of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg had to leave their homes since torrential rain on Friday caused deadly flooding.
More evacuations were called overnight into Monday as the huge volumes of water caused flood defences to fail.
In Bavaria, about 800 people were asked to leave their homes in the area of Ebenhausen-Werk after a dam burst on Monday.
Residents around Manching-Pichl, in the area worst affected by the floods, were told to shelter on the upper floors of their homes.
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