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The devastating floods that struck parts of western Germany did around 2 billion euros (2.3 billion dollars) worth of damage to the region's road and rail network, government sources told dpa on Monday. In the case of the railway alone, the repair costs are estimated at 1.3 billion euros. Destroyed bridges, rail lines, roads and cell phone masts in the disaster areas should be repaired as soon as possible, the Ministry of Transport said earlier. To this end, a ministry task force met on Monday with representatives of German railway company Deutsche Bahn and federal roadway officials....

At least 26 people were killed after several homes collapsed in Mumbai following landslides triggered by heavy monsoon rains, officials said Sunday. The rain-related accidents occurred in two suburbs of Chembur and Vikhroli after torrential downpours pounded the metropolis from Saturday evening. Residents were advised not to venture out in the open. Nineteen people were killed when six shanty homes collapsed in Chembur, local police officials said. Nine of those injured, who were rescued from the debris, were taken to hospital. Separately, seven people were killed and two injured when several ......

Six houses collapsed in western Germany due to flooding and ongoing rain overnight, leaving about 30 people missing Thursday morning, police said. The catastrophe was unfolding in the rural Eifel region of Rhineland-Palatinate state, where police said four people had been found dead in the district of Ahrweiler. The entire district was heavily impacted by the storms, a spokesman for police in the nearby city of Koblenz said. Several communities were cut off from the outside world because of the flooding. So far, about 50 people who escaped the rising waters by climbing to their rooftops had to......

Bangladeshi police have arrested eight people including the owners and top executives of a food processing factory after at least 52 workers were killed in a devastating fire, officials said on Saturday. Home Minister Asaduzzaman Khan announced the arrests at the site of the accident, and warned that no-one would be spared if the investigators found negligence had led to the loss of so many lives. Many of those who were killed in the fire that swept through Hashem Food and Beverage Ltd on Thursday were trapped on the fourth floor, unable to escape as the door was locked. It took firefighters m......

Police have found hate messages during a raid of the homeless shelter where the suspect in a fatal knife attack in Wuerzburg, Germany, had been staying. The found material, including text messages on his phone, would now be analyzed, criminal director Armin Kuehnert said during a press conference. Police also said that most of the victims of the knife attack on Friday were women. Not only the three people killed were women, but also most of those injured. It was unclear whether the alleged attacker, a 24-year-old migrant, had targeted women on purpose or if it was a coincidence, police said, a......

The three people who were fatally wounded in the knife attack in the southern German city of Wuerzburg this week were killed in a department store and all of them were women, police say. Immediately before the attack, the suspect had asked for knives in the shop, then took one from the display and started stabbing the salesperson, wounding her fatally. He then went on to kill two other women in the shop before attacking people in a bank and on the street, according to the current state of investigations. “I have seen injured people, I have seen dead people,” said police chief Gerhard Kallert, ......