“In the last flood, much more than € 300 million was allocated. In this case, it will probably be the same,” Scholz said in an interview with Bild.

In his opinion, the second step after the provision of urgent material assistance will be the creation of a reconstruction program in order to quickly repair destroyed houses, roads and bridges.

Earlier it became known that as a result of floods in the Ahrweiler district in western Germany, 156 people were killed, another 670 were injured.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel spoke about the scale of the flood tragedy in Germany.