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Photos: Thousands flee, many missing, scores dead as floodwater breach Dutch defences
Thousand of people fled their homes in Southern Netherlands on Friday as intense flooding griped the region. Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte declared a national disaster in the southern province of Limburg, which is sandwiched between badly flooded areas in western Germany and Belgium.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel plans to visit areas affected by Germany’s worst flooding in decades. She called the floods a catastrophe, and vowed to support those affected through these "difficult and scary times".(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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A coupe stands outside their home in Brommelen, Netherlands. "Floods always happen, and they are like random events, like rolling the dice. But we've changed the odds on rolling the dice," said Ralf Toumi, a climate scientist at Imperial College London.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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A view of a flooded street from a home in Brommelen. In general the rising average global temperature – now about 1.2 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial average – makes heavy rainfall more likely, according to scientists. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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A view of a pump extracting water out of a flooded basement of a house, in Brommelen. Water has burst riverbanks and cascaded through communities, toppling telephone towers and tearing down homes along its path.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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Wedding photos float in water in a flooded basement of a home in the town of Brommelen, Netherlands.(AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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A resident pumps water out of his flooded basement in Brommelen. "When we have this heavy rainfall, then the atmosphere is almost like a sponge - you squeeze a sponge and the water flows out," said Johannes Quaas, professor of Theoretical Meteorology at Leipzig University. (AP Photo/Bram Janssen)
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