4 dead in Germany floods

Berlin, May 30 

A boy, 12, who was with her was not physically injured but had to receive trauma counselling, said police in the southern city of Aalen.

In Schwaebisch Gmuend near the city of Stuttgart, a volunteer firefighter died on Sunday trying to rescue a man trapped in a shaft of a flooded railway station.

The man who was trapped was also presumed dead although neither body has been recovered. In Weissbach, just to the north, a 60-year-old man died in a flooded underground garage on same day.

A number of people had to be rescued from cars trapped in the floods. National news agency DPA said a river broke its banks in Braunsbach, destroying one house and damaging several others.

Eyewitnesses posted videos on social network sites showing cars being carried away by the floods and crashing into shop windows. — AFP