The 2021 floods in Germany and Belgium ranked among the *** deadliest flood events in Europe in the past 100 years, with a total of *** fatalities. Nevertheless, the storm surge in the Netherlands and Belgium in 1953 remains Europe's deadliest flood in the period, with over ** fatalities. Coming at a second position is the flood that occurred in Romania, on the Danube river in 1926, which resulted in a death toll of 1,000 people.
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