An 82-year-old man also died after falling in his flooded basement in the city of Wuppertal, which was among the hardest-hit. Six houses collapsed overnight in the village of Schuld and 'many people have been reported missing to us,' police said. Police said an 82-year-old man died after a fall in his flooded basement in the western city of Wuppertal, which was among the hardest-hit. Relentless rain through the night also worsened the flooding conditions in eastern Belgium, where one person was reported drowned. An unknown number of houses in the southern province of Limburg were hit by flooding as rivers burst their banks.

Source: The Nation July 15, 2021 07:52 UTC