The death toll in western Germany's Rhineland-Palatinate state, home to the badly hit Ahrweiler county, rose to 98. Belgium’s national crisis center said the country's confirmed death toll rose to 27. By Saturday, authorities still feared finding more people dead, but said numbers unaccounted for had dropped constantly, without offering specific figures. Around 700 people were evacuated from part of the German town of Wassenberg, on the Dutch border, after the breach of a dike on the Rur river. In Austria, a flash flood swept through the town of Hallein, near the German border, late Saturday.

Source: ABC News July 17, 2021 06:03 UTC