Body of fifth victim recovered from submerged car after flooding in Germany

A woman’s body has been recovered from a car that sank into floodwater in Bavaria, police said, bringing the confirmed death toll in flooding across Germany to five.

Persistent heavy rain led to widespread flooding over the weekend. While the situation has now eased in south-western Germany, water levels remained high in parts of Bavaria, particularly on the Danube and in the Rosenheim area in the south-east. Some major railway lines, including several leading to Munich, were still blocked or disrupted.

The bodies of four people who died in the floods were found on Sunday and Monday, three of them in inundated basements.

Police reported the fifth victim on Tuesday in the small town of Markt Rettenbach. They said a driver who had apparently ignored barriers blocking a flooded road on Monday slipped off the road into a field and called emergency services to alert them that her car was filling with water.

Rescuers found the nearly submerged vehicle and recovered the woman’s body.