Rescuers rush to help as Europe’s flood toll passes 120

Debris hangs on a damaged bridge over the Ahr river in Schuld, Germany, Friday, July 16, 2021. Two days before the Ahr river went over the banks after strong rain falls causing severals deaths and hundreds of people missing. (AP Photo/Michael Probst)

Emergency workers in western German and Belgium are working to rescue hundreds of people in danger or still unaccounted for as the death toll from devastating floods rose to more than 120.

Authorities in the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate said 63 people had died there, including 12 residents of a care home for disabled people in the town of Sinzig who were surprised by a sudden rush of water from the nearby Ahr River.