Belgium, with at least 12 dead, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, are hard hit by the bad weather.

But Germany is paying the heaviest price with at least 81 dead according to the latest police report. 

The toll of devastating weather in Europe climbed Friday morning to 93 dead, most of them in Germany, where help continues to search for hundreds of people missing.

In western Germany, an area particularly affected by flooding caused by torrential rains, the number of victims has increased to at least 81, according to police.

"I fear that we do not see the full extent of the disaster in the coming days," Chancellor Angela Merkel warned Thursday evening from Washington, where she is visiting.

Belgium, with at least 12 dead according to a new report on Friday, Luxembourg and the Netherlands, where several districts of Maastricht had to be evacuated, have also been severely affected by bad weather in Europe, which has at this stage made the country less 93 dead.

At least 81 dead in Germany

But it is Germany which pays the heaviest price with at least 81 dead according to the latest report.

In Rhineland-Palatinate, one of the most affected regions, the number of deaths recorded on Friday morning rose from 28 to 50. And the toll is probably expected to rise because of the number of people still missing in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate.

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In the latter region alone, the authorities said they still had no news of 1,300 people in the worst-hit canton, that of Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler. However, a spokesperson quoted by Bild put this figure on the account of disruptions to the telephone network which prevents many residents from being able to be reached. Concretely, "we are still counting on 40, 50 or 60 missing persons and when you have people who have not given any sign of life for so long (...) we must fear the worst", declared his minister of 'Interior Roger Lewentz on SWR TV.

Nearly a thousand soldiers have been mobilized to help with relief and clearing operations in towns and villages, all of which offer the same spectacle of desolation: streets and houses under water, overturned cars, uprooted trees.

Many neighborhoods also remained cut off from the world on Friday. 

Alarming situation in Liège

Neighbors of the most affected German regions, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg are also affected.

In Belgium, people are still missing.

The army was deployed in four of the ten provinces of the country to take part in the relief efforts and in particular in the numerous evacuations.

Tents have been made available to relocate residents of Spa, the spa town under water since Wednesday. 

Alarming situation also in Liège, where the local authorities advised the inhabitants to evacuate the city, under the threat of floods of the Meuse.