After the local cemetery in Ahrweiler, Germany, had flooded and washed away most of the tombstones, officials were trying to find ways to bury the dead.
Ahrweiler, the flooded German town in Ahr valley, had authorities trying to figure out where to bury the dead as the local cemetery had also flooded and washed away most of the tombstones, the Associated Press reported.
For the past five days, the 58-year-old Catholic priest has pulled on his galoshes and walked the streets to try to give comfort to his parishioners as they get on with the grim task of cleaning up what was destroyed by Wednesday's flash flood—and recovering the bodies of those who perished in it. At least 201 people were killed when heavy rainfall turned streams into raging torrents across parts of western Germany and Belgium, with Ahrweiler county the hardest-hit area.
"We need to start over," said Paddy Amanatidis, the owner of La Perla pizzeria, as she took a break from cleaning the rubble out of the restaurant.
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