Germany: Locals and clean-up operations clear wreckage left by floods in Stolberg

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Locals and clean-up operation workers were seen collecting debris and repairing the damage left by intense flooding in Stolberg on Sunday.

One of the train stations was left in ruins, with train tracks covered in debris. Areas near the river canal were cordoned off with piles of trees and sludge gathering on the side banks. Furniture and other objects floated down the stream.

Store owner Demirtas Suya cleaned out the ruined produce from the shelves and said, “I think we have to renovate everything. Almost everyone here has to renovate. Stolberg has to start from scratch.”

Over 180 people died in the flooding in western Germany and Belgium, with more people still missing Sunday morning. At least 143 died in Germany, where the floods are the country’s worst natural disaster in over half a century.

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SOT, Demirtas Suya, Store owner (German): “The first time this happened. I believe this never happened to older people.”

SOT, Demirtas Suya, Store owner (German): “I think we have to renovate everything. Almost everyone here has to renovate. Stolberg has to start from scratch. I assume business were the least affected.”

SOT, Demirtas Suya, Store owner (German): “Downtown, where the shops are, the water was up to the top. On the side streets the damage was less, but still great.”

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