Dusseldorf - Severe storms with heavy rain, thunder Blitzund have Schädenangerichtet on Saturday in NRW great.
Near Höxter a 55-year-old was hit by lightning in front of a liquor store. The man died later in hospital.
A storm raged fiercely in Xanten (EXPRESS reported>), where there were 13 people were injured in the afternoon by lightning. They had visited the largest RömerfestEuropas in the Archaeological Park and searched in a row of trees Schutzvor the storm.
Filled up the basement and flooded roads were police undFeuerwehr along the Rhine in continuous use. But in Viersengingen within one and a half hours 170 emergency calls accompanied by a derEinsatzleitstelle.
Where whole streets were flooded undBäume fallen on the roadways.
"Land under" in the benachbartenMönchengladbach, where the rains Gullydeckel hochdrückten ism and paralyzed. Not until the evening, the situation in the Gebietberuhigt.
In Alsdorf, near Aachen, the fire brigade had to pump their eigeneHauptwache empty, which had been flooded by the water masses.
Several homes and attics came durchBlitzeinschläge on fire.
Delete in Bedburg-Hau (Kreis Kleve) konntenBewohner their burning roof itself. The Hausbesitzererlitt a smoke poisoning.
At the same time to beat demUnglück Xanten Archaeological Park, a bolt of lightning into a semi-detached one undzerstörte the floor. A 20-year-old was able to bring himself rechtzeitigin security.
