Europe floods: Search for missing goes on as death toll tops 90

Heavy rainfall has caused flooding in several provinces in Belgium (Valentin Bianchi/AP)

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.

Authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate said 50 people had died there. In neighbouring North Rhine-Westphalia, state officials put the death toll at 30, but warned that the figure could rise further.