Germany: 1 dead, 1 missing after flood brings down bridge

By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
Associated Press

BERLIN (AP) — German rescue teams have recovered the body of a woman from the water and are still searching for one more person who was swept off a bridge by sudden floods in Bavaria. German authorities said Tuesday that eight other people were rescued uninjured from the floods. Heavy, sudden rains on Monday afternoon turned a creek in the Valley of Hell near the town of Grainau into floods that tore down a wooden bridge, sweeping two people into the water. The other people were caught by the water or cut off from hiking paths by the flood elsewhere in the steep valley. Over 100 other people had to be moved to higher ground and were led to safety by mountaineers.