Death toll from European flooding tops 150 as water recedes

Waters are receding across many of the affected regions, but officials fear that more bodies might be found in cars and trucks that were swept away.

Damaged cars are piled up on a residential street after flooding in Chenee, Province of Liege, Belgium, Friday July 16, 2021. Picture: AP Photo/Valentin Bianchi

The death toll from disastrous flooding in western Europe has risen above 150 as rescue workers toiled to clear up the devastation and prevent further damage.

Police said more than 90 people are known to have died in western Germany’s Ahrweiler county, in the hard-hit Rhineland-Palatinate state.