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"The flooding was caused by a storm that slowed to a crawl over parts of Europe on Wednesday, dumping as much as six inches of rain on the region near Cologne and Bonn before finally beginning to let up on Friday. There was flooding in Belgium, the Netherlands and Switzerland, too, but the worst impacts were in Germany, where the official death toll passed 125 on Friday and was sure to climb." Read more.