The bridge on the Stuwweg in Maastricht is in danger of collapsing after a houseboat drifted into it early Thursday morning. According to the spokesperson for the regional safety office, a slight bend is visible in the middle of the bridge. "But the problem is that we cannot go onto the bridge, and the ground around it is very soggy …
The floods in Zuid-Limburg are "in a formal sense" a disaster, caretaker Prime Minister Mark Rutte said after the cabinet's crisis deliberations on Thursday. The water level remained just "below the doomsday scenario", a spokesperson for the safety region said to NOS. Some 12 thousand people were evacuated in the south of Limburg overnight, mostly in Maastricht and Bunde, Maarten …
