BERLIN (AP) — A woman's body has been recovered from a car that sank into floodwater in Bavaria, police said Tuesday, bringing the confirmed death toll in flooding across southern Germany to five. Read this article for free: Already have an account? To continue reading, please subscribe: * BERLIN (AP) — A woman's body has been recovered from a car that sank into floodwater in Bavaria, police said Tuesday, bringing the confirmed death toll in flooding across southern Germany to five. Read unlimited articles for free today: Already have an account? BERLIN (AP) — A woman’s body has been recovered from a car that sank into floodwater in Bavaria, police said Tuesday, bringing the confirmed death toll in flooding across southern Germany to five.
Persistent heavy rain led to widespread flooding over the weekend. While the situation has now eased in southwestern Germany, water levels remained high in parts of Bavaria, particularly on the Danube and in the Rosenheim area in the southeast. Some major railway lines, including several leading to Munich, were still blocked or disrupted.
The bodies of four people who died in the floods were found Sunday and Monday, three of them in inundated basements. Monday mornings The latest local business news and a lookahead to the coming week. Police reported the fifth victim Tuesday in the small town of Markt Rettenbach.
They said a driver who apparently had ignored barriers blocking a flooded road on Monday slipped off the road into a fiel.