“At present, we proceed from the fact that there are about 1.3 thousand missing,” informs the German edition Focus, citing data from the authorities.
It is noted that rescue operations continue to the present.
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.
Russian President Vladimir Putin sent condolences to German Chancellor Angela Merkel and German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in connection with the victims and other consequences of the cyclone that struck the West of Germany.