Four dead after flooding and rainstorms in Germany

Four people are presumed dead after heavy rain triggered flooding and left one German town littered with rubble.

A firefighter and a man he was trying to save were sucked into a flooded underpass in Schwaebisch Gmuend.

Both men were presumed dead although their bodies had not yet been recovered, police said Monday.

The body of a third victim was found in a flooded garage in Weissbach near the city of Heilbronn.

The fourth victim was a 13-year-old girl who was struck by a train as she sheltered from the rain under a railway bridge on Sunday evening in Schorndorf.

In Schorndorf, near Stuttgart, a train fatally struck a 13-year-old girl as she sheltered from the rain under a railway bridge on Sunday evening.

The rainstorms in Germany follow similar freak weather incidents in Europe over the weekend, where lightning left at least 30 people injured.