The World - News from March 28, 1988
The rain-swollen Danube River burst through dikes along its banks in Bavaria, forcing the evacuation of hundreds of people. Many rivers in West Germany, including the Rhine, Mosel, Donlau and Neckar, are flooding from heavy rains and rapidly melting snow in the Alps, and at least two people have died. Water was up to a foot deep in Niederachdorf, a Bavarian hamlet 80 miles northeast of Munich. Radio reports said that about 2,000 people were being evacuated from Niederachdorf and other communities in that area.
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