Photos of Deadly Europe Flooding Show Devastating Power of Water

Eric Chaney
Published: June 3,2016



 
Flooding has killed at least 10 people and prompted evacuations across Europe as slow-moving storm system dumped rain across the continent. High water forced helicopter rescues in Simbach, Germany, and trapped schoolchildren in a school in the nearby city of Triftern.
In France, the Seine River overflowed its banks and Paris City Hall shut down roads along its shores from the Left Bank in the east to the Eiffel Tower neighborhood in the west. As water levels rose at least 16 feet higher than usual, officials were forced to close the Louvre to try to move thousands of precious works of art to higher ground.
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French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told the Associated Press that emergency workers have carried out more than 8,000 rescue operations from the Belgian border south to the Burgundy.
North of the Belgian border, several neighborhoods had to be evacuated as cellars flooded and streets were submerged in overflowing creeks and rivers in Limburg and Liege.
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