Germany floods: Where are the worst-hit areas?

Record rainfall has caused widespread flooding across Western Europe, with slotxo some areas suffering the worst devastation in decades. Dozens have died and hundreds remain unaccounted for.

Areas of Germany, Belgium, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and Switzerland have been hit.

Satellite analysis shows rivers bursting banks

Large swathes of the region have seen rivers overflowing following torrential rainfall. The red areas on the map below show where there has been flooding in recent days.

In Germany, the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia have been worst hit.

In Belgium, residents of Liège, the country's third-largest urban area after Brussels and Antwerp, were ordered to evacuate. Cars were swept away along a street in the nearby city of Verviers.

And in the Netherlands, thousands of people in towns and villages along the River Meuse have been urged to leave their houses.

Many towns have been affected

Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, in western Germany, is among the many places hit by the catastrophic floods.

Hundreds of people remain unaccounted for there, and cars and rubble are piled up in streets.

In Echtershausen, near Bitburg, also in western Germany, roads and bridges have been damaged by the rising waters.

Several houses have collapsed.