Severe storms: 25 injured, “Southside Festival canceled – THE WORLD

A local train is derailed on Saturday morning during a storm in Rhineland-Palatinate near Bacharach. Here ten people have been injured. A railway spokesman said on Saturday morning, including whether the drivers, nine passengers had come with slight injuries. The front pulling part of the RE 4251 from Koblenz to Frankfurt was derailed at 5:30 am between Bacharach and Oberwesel by a landslide due to heavy rainfall.

“When a storm slid debris on the track,” said a police spokesman. The left bank line was blocked for salvage operations. How long was continuing to block, is not yet clear, said the announcer. Previously, it had come on Friday on the same railway line after a violent storm in the Middle Rhine Valley to impairments. On both sides of the Rhine, the tracks were washed out.

In Stromberg, Rhineland-Palatinate also, to the otherwise harmless Welschenbach turned into a raging river. The water was partly two meters high in the small town.

About 60 buildings were flooded. 30 residents were confined to their homes. The total damage could reach a six- or seven-digit level. Injured there were, according to the emergency response team of the district Bad Kreuznach not.

25 injured in the “Southside Festival”

In addition, the storm was particularly violent Baden-Württemberg. When “Southside Festival” with tens of thousands of music fans, there were 25 injured on Friday evening. The revelers fleeing lightning, thunder and heavy rain.

Paramedic supplied the “Southside Festival” in Tuttlingen 25 injured music fans. “Five of them came to the hospital,” said a police spokesman. What was it for injuries, he could not say on Saturday morning. The event was subsequently canceled. The security at the site can not be guaranteed, informed the organizers. Visitors were asked to go back home.

prevailed at the beginning of the three-day open-air event on the grounds of a former military airfield in Neuhausen Whether Eck yet schönstes summer weather, then came thunder and lightning.

The water was partly two meters high

also in Pfullingen, south of Stuttgart, it poured with rain. Two small streams burst their banks and drove the helpless residents cornered. The full extent of the damage will probably show only at sunrise, declared the exhausted rescuers.

thunderstorms and a hail storm surprised the place in the late evening hours. Firefighters were under is interrupted in operation to pump out flooded cellars and underground car parks to recover washed away cars and delete a basement fire. In a short time occurred in the 18,000-resident community two streams over their banks and flooded parts of the city.

“It looks devastating in the urban area” said Mayor Michael Schrenk at night. Especially public buildings such as sports halls and a museum were affected. “There are large areas caused great damage.” Notes on injured were initially not

“Hurricane Festival” interrupted

The “Hurricane”. – Festival in Lower Saxony Scheeßel was interrupted on Friday. “We interrupt two hours event operations due to a strong storm,” informed the organizers.

Photo: AP storm: visitors walk on through the completely sodden campsite of” Hurricane “festival in Scheeßel

This is not a rejection of the feast. The festival organizers called for consideration and assistance. “Please leave the event site to your vehicles and take other visitors in your vessels on. Stay calm and watch your fellow man.”

The 20th edition Festival had begun in the afternoon. On Thursday, as many participants arrived, severe thunderstorms were drawn across the town and had the festival site affected pulled. The sold-out event around 75,000 spectators are expected.

Thunderstorms cross Germany to Sunday

In the east and south should the storm arrive until Saturday. was always with hail to expect heavy rain and squalls, warned the DWD meteorologist.

By Sunday should thunderstorms Germany cross and reduce temperatures on normal summer level , Cool air from the Atlantic pushes the hot air from the south away.

When the storms are through, there will be about 10 degrees cooler, said DWD meteorologist Johanna Anger: “on Sunday it is in many parts of Germany to Weather calming Then the hot air is ousted with the incoming cooler air, the maximum values ​​are only between 20 and locally 26 degrees…”

Who evening out will watch football, should pack a jacket, advised a meteorologist. On Monday, sleepyhead, it is mostly cloudy with some rain. Temperatures range between 19 degrees to the North and 25 degrees in the southwest and in Brandenburg.

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