02:10Elmar Mettke, spokesperson from the Erftstadt Fire Department, reported luckily no bodies were found in the clean up on the Bundesstrasse 256, on Saturday.
Clean-up crews made up of recovery teams, local police and firefighters and the Bundeswehr have been removing cars from the flooded highways.
Mettke spoke of the problem of an open gravel pit giving way in the district of Blessem-Erftstadt.
"The ground 100 meters from the current rim of the pit is incredibly unstable and the pit could slide. We can only use drones or other aircraft to reach this area," he noted.
Over 180 people died in the flooding in western Germany and Belgium, with more people still missing as of Sunday morning, with at least 143 dead in Germany, where the floods are the country's worst natural disaster in over half a century.
Germany: Fire dept spox reports no bodies found in road clean up in Erftstadt after floods
Elmar Mettke, spokesperson from the Erftstadt Fire Department, reported luckily no bodies were found in the clean up on the Bundesstrasse 256, on Saturday.
Clean-up crews made up of recovery teams, local police and firefighters and the Bundeswehr have been removing cars from the flooded highways.
Mettke spoke of the problem of an open gravel pit giving way in the district of Blessem-Erftstadt.
"The ground 100 meters from the current rim of the pit is incredibly unstable and the pit could slide. We can only use drones or other aircraft to reach this area," he noted.
Over 180 people died in the flooding in western Germany and Belgium, with more people still missing as of Sunday morning, with at least 143 dead in Germany, where the floods are the country's worst natural disaster in over half a century.
Elmar Mettke, spokesperson from the Erftstadt Fire Department, reported luckily no bodies were found in the clean up on the Bundesstrasse 256, on Saturday.
Clean-up crews made up of recovery teams, local police and firefighters and the Bundeswehr have been removing cars from the flooded highways.
Mettke spoke of the problem of an open gravel pit giving way in the district of Blessem-Erftstadt.
"The ground 100 meters from the current rim of the pit is incredibly unstable and the pit could slide. We can only use drones or other aircraft to reach this area," he noted.
Over 180 people died in the flooding in western Germany and Belgium, with more people still missing as of Sunday morning, with at least 143 dead in Germany, where the floods are the country's worst natural disaster in over half a century.