<div style="text-align: justify; "><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b>German Chancellor Olaf Scholz was due to visit Germany's flood-hit south on Monday after days of heavy rain left large parts of the region under water.</b></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes over the weekend in the southern regions of Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The situation continued to get worse overnight into Monday, with 800 people asked to leave their homes in the area of Ebenhausen-Werk, Bavaria, after a dam burst.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The district of Regensburg, which sits on the Danube, also joined a growing list to declare a state of emergency as the water rose.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Scholz was expected to visit the area of Reichertshofen, in Bavaria, close to where some of the worst flooding has been seen.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The chancellor will arrive in the flood zone around 11:00 am local time (0900 GMT) in the company of Interior Minister Nancy Faeser and Bavarian premier Markus Soeder.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">On Sunday, a 42-year-old volunteer fireman was found dead after his vessel turned over during a flood rescue operation.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Another volunteer, 22, was still missing after his boat also overturned overnight into Sunday.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A search operation to find the missing rescue worker had to be stopped due to the exceptionally high waters and strong currents, local police said.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The search was set to resume Monday, if conditions improved.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The German Weather Service (DWD) lifted warnings of heavy rain and storms overnight into Monday in all the affected areas.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Some rain could however continue to fall in the areas of southern Germany already impacted.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"> </div><div style="text-align: justify;">The widespread flooding and continued rainfall had an impact on transport in the region with widespread train cancellations and delays.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Train lines leading from Munich to Stuttgart, Nuremberg and Wuerzburg were unusable as a result of the bad weather, rail operator Deutsche Bahn stated on its website.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">A landslide near Schwaebisch Gmuend overnight into Sunday caused a high-speed train travelling between Stuttgart and Augsburg to derail, blocking the line. Nobody was hurt in the incident. </div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>