The town of Dinant in Belgium woke up to a big cleanup job after its heaviest floods in decades turned streets into torrential streams that washed away cars and pavement
Dinant was spared the deadly floods 10 days ago that killed 37 people in southeast Belgium and many more in Germany, but the violence of Saturday's storm surprised many.
"I have been living in Dinant for 57 years, and I've never seen anything like that," Richard Fournaux, the former mayor of the town on the Meuse river and birthplace of the 19th century inventor of the saxophone, Adolphe Sax, said on social media.A woman works to recover her belongings following heavy rainfall in Dinant, Belgium July 25, 2021.
There was no precise estimate of the damage, with town authorities predicting only that it would be "significant", according to Belgian RTL TV. The storm wreaked similar havoc, also with no loss of life, in the small town of Anhee a few kilometres north of Dinant.Sign up for our newsletter Subscribe for our daily curated newsletter to receive the latest exclusive Reuters coverage delivered to your inbox.
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