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Floods drive climate to heart of German election campaign

Greens set to be biggest beneficiary of voters’ growing concern about freak weather events

With just over two months to go until polling day, the devastating floods that swept through western Germany this week have catapulted climate change to the heart of the country’s election campaign.

Most German political parties agreed global warming was to blame for a catastrophe that has left at least 140 people dead and visited destruction on towns and villages across two of the country’s most populous states.

A dam on the Roer river burst on Saturday as rescuers scrambled to evacuate about 700 residents from the town of Wassenberg, near the Dutch border.

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