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15 Jul, 4 tweets, 3 min read
🔴 Flooding across Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands has left a pathway of devastation, with dozens of people missing.

In the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate, 6 houses have collapsed, leaving four dead and many stranded on rooftops

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🔴At least 19 people have now died after freak storms triggered flash floods which have swept away homes and devastated parts of western Germany and Belgium
🔴Several towns in Germany have been cut off after rivers burst their banks.

Police said “a lot of the people” reported missing were those who had been waiting on the roofs of their houses that were swept away

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Six houses collapsed in the town of Schuld bei Adenau close to Germany’s western borders, where four people have been reported dead

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