Four dead after floods sweep Germany amid 'warning' of climate change

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REICHERTSHOFEN: Rescuers battled Monday (June 3) to evacuate people from floods in southern Germany that have claimed four lives, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it a "warning" that climate change was get

Thousands of people in the regions of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg had to leave their homes since torrential rain on Friday sparked deadly flooding.

Speaking on a visit to Reichertshofen, a flood-hit area north of Munich, Scholz said that such floods were no longer a"one-off". Police in Baden-Wuerttemberg on Monday said a man and a woman were found dead in the basement of their house in Schorndorf following the flood. Train lines leading from Munich to Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Wuerzburg were unusable, rail operator Deutsche Bahn said.

Overall, the experts assumed that the government's emissions-reduction target for 2030"will not be met".AUTO & ENERGY PRODUCTION AFFECTED

 

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