Reuters. The city of Passau in Southern Germany close to the Austrian border has declared a state of emergency on Tuesday (June 4) as water levels in the Danube river have reached 10 meters following days of floods in Southern Germany.
A representative of the Water Management Agency Deggendorf said he believed however that the peak has now been reached and added that early protection measures have kept damages relatively low in the town.
Heavy rainfall has led to several thousand people being forced to leave their homes with a firefighter dying while trying to rescue trapped residents and two more people found dead on Monday (June 4).
