BERLIN, 16 July. - (ANA) - The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above 90 on Friday, as the search continued for hundreds of people still unaccounted for.

 

The German Chancellor Angela Merkel has expressed deep sympathy for victims of the flooding “catastrophe” in Germany, which killed at least 80 people. 

 

More than a thousand are still missing. The German chancellor said it was a day “characterised by fear, by despair, by suffering” and told the German people that the government “will not leave you alone in this difficult, terrible hour”. 

 

Belgium has reported at least 11 dead after extreme weather, which politicians have blamed on climate change.   - (ANA) -

 

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