Heavy rain wreaked havoc across Germany on Friday, with flooding reported in several regions.
A major storm in the southern German state of Bavaria has left roads and cellars flooded, with fallen trees causing disruption.
According to a police spokesman in the town of Kempten, southwest of Munich, roads were whitened by hail, with around 320 operations reported by emergency services between 6pm (1600 GMT) and midnight.
The most affected were the Allgäu region and the district of Lindau, close to Lake Constance and the border with Austria. Follow-up operations, including pumping out the cellars, continued into the night.
Another 230 operations were recorded by the police station in the city of Rosenheim, further east. Emergency services responded to flooded cellars and trees that fell onto roads and sometimes tracks. No injuries were reported.
Meanwhile, heavy rains in parts of the northern state of Lower Saxony caused further disruption, flooding cellars and streets.
Emergency services in the county of Bentheim, near the Dutch border, were particularly busy on Friday, with more than 100 incidents recorded in the town of Nordhorn.
Flooding caused a hospital emergency room to temporarily close, while overflowing reservoirs caused further damage to residential areas. Several roads were closed at times, and around 200 firefighters were called to respond to the floods.
Further south, strong winds caused €130,000 worth of damage ($142,000) to several residential buildings – including a nursing home – in the town of Dissen, located in a forest near the city of Osnabrück.
The German Weather Service expects isolated storms to bring more heavy rain to Lower Saxony on Saturday and Sunday, especially in coastal areas.
