Reuters: At least five people have been killed in floods caused by prolonged heavy rain in southern Germany's Bavaria state and thousands of households were cut off from electricity, officials said on Thursday.
Firemen found the bodies of three women in the basement of a flooded house in Simbach am Inn 120 km (75 miles) east of Munich, and the body of a man at another property in the town.
Authorities had no immediate details on how the man died, but they said it was related to flooding.
In the nearby...