German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Interior Minister Nancy Faeser have arrived in the southern German region of Upper Bavaria which is grappling with heavy flooding.
Together with Bavaria's State Premier Markus Söder, they aim to gain an impression of the situation on the ground in the market town of Reichertshofen, which was flooded by masses of water the day before.
Speaking to local politicians, Faeser expressed her shock at the death of a firefighter in a flood operation: "It's really terrible what happened," she said on Monday. "It shows just how dangerous these operations are."
Faeser said she was impressed by how well the emergency services worked together.
Her impression was "that lessons have been learnt from the Ahr Valley, that coordination and cooperation work much better," she said, referring to heavy flooding in Germany's Ahr valley in July 2021, in which over 180 people were killed and many thousands lost their homes.