"According to estimates, in the western part (Germany. -
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) now about 165 thousand consumers are left without electricity," the largest energy company in Germany, E-on, reports to TASS.
It is noted that some power lines were damaged by the flood, some were shut down on purpose.
On the night of July 15, streams of water completely washed away six houses in the town of Eifel in the administrative district of Ahrweiler (federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate).
Earlier it became known that the death toll from floods in Germany rose to 58.
The FRG authorities announced about 1.3 thousand missing due to the flood.