“The situation is and remains serious, critical and tense,” said Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU) on Monday in Reichertshofen in Upper Bavaria. Dams are still threatening to break or give way. The worst is yet to come in the east. “We can see that the flood is now moving,” he said, referring to Regensburg.
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Firefighter still missing
The body of the woman was discovered in the basement of a house in Schrobenhausen in Upper Bavaria. It was the missing 43-year-old who had been searched for since Sunday, a police spokesman said on Monday. On Sunday morning, a firefighter who died during a rescue operation was recovered in Pfaffenhofen an der Ilm. The man capsized in an inflatable boat while on duty with three colleagues. A firefighter in Offingen is still missing.
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Firefighters have recovered two bodies from a drained cellar in Schorndorf in the Rems-Murr district in Baden-Württemberg. Police confirmed this to the German Press Agency in Stuttgart. The cellar had previously filled up due to flooding. The exact circumstances of the deaths are still unclear. According to a statement, the deceased were a man and a woman. However, the identities of the two have not yet been established. The criminal investigation department has begun investigations. First one dead person was discovered, then the second.
Söder (CSU) did not believe that the danger in Bavaria had been averted. “It is receding somewhat, but we cannot give the all-clear,” he said on Monday on Deutschlandfunk. Even if it stops raining, the water levels of the larger rivers would still rise due to the inflows, he said. Regensburg on the Danube, for example, has now declared a state of emergency.
Passenger ship evacuated
A passenger ship was also evacuated in Deggendorf in Lower Bavaria. More than 140 people have been taken off the ship since midday, a spokeswoman for the district office said on Monday.
During his visit to Bavaria, German Chancellor Scholz assured those affected of his solidarity. Solidarity is “what we as people need most,” he said. “We will do everything we can, including using the federal government’s resources, to ensure that help can be provided more quickly.”
Faeser and Scholz in affected areas
Scholz was in Reichertshofen together with the German Interior Minister Nancy Faeser (SPD) and Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder (CSU). She was impressed by how well the rescue services worked together, said Faeser. Her impression was that “after the Ahr Valley, lessons were also learned that things are working much better in terms of coordination and cooperation.”
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