{"id":110861,"date":"2026-08-02T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110861\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T06:25:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T06:25:14","slug":"germany-storm-leaves-1-dead-3-seriously-injured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/110861\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany storm leaves 1 dead, 3 seriously injured"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">A man has been killed and three people seriously injured after a severe storm struck the Saxon Switzerland region in the eastern German state of Saxony, police said on Friday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">There were no reports of missing people, said a spokesman for the Dresden Emergency Services Control Centre. According to the control centre, a 38-year-old man lost his life near the Felsenb\u00fchne open-air theatre in Rathen when a falling tree struck him.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Ten other people were injured, according to the centre, and 40 people were evacuated. The search will continue on Saturday, the spokesman said.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The Amselgrund \u2013 a scenic valley popular with hikers \u2013 and Lake Amsel remain closed.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">\u201cThe situation on the ground is very unclear,\u201d said a police spokesman. The darkness was hampering the work of the emergency services. A clear picture of the situation would probably only emerge once it was light again, said the police spokesman. A police helicopter was in the air equipped with a thermal imaging camera.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Storm damage in Amselgrund in the Saxon Switzerland National Park. Photo: dpa\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/50524e55-95e6-49cd-9e7e-2c65c66ab8e3_cf0d77aa.jpg\" title=\"Storm damage in Amselgrund in the Saxon Switzerland National Park. Photo: dpa\"\/>Storm damage in Amselgrund in the Saxon Switzerland National Park. Photo: dpa<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The health resort of Rathen lies directly on the Elbe river, close to the well-known Bastei rock formation. The Friday evening performance of the musical \u201cLittle Shop of Horrors\u201d at the Felsenb\u00fchne was cancelled.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A man has been killed and three people seriously injured after a severe storm struck the Saxon Switzerland&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":110862,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[54153,54148,54144,54145,54146,54155,1344,54149,54147,54152,54150,54151,54154,48878,17,39580],"class_list":["post-110861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-amselgrund","tag-bastei","tag-dresden-emergency-services-control-centre","tag-dwd","tag-elbe","tag-felsenbuhne","tag-germany","tag-johannes-gartner","tag-lake-amsel","tag-rathen","tag-saxon-switzerland","tag-saxon-switzerland-national-park","tag-saxony","tag-severe-storm","tag-switzerland","tag-thermal-imaging-camera"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/117024491280688740","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110861","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=110861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/110861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/110862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=110861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=110861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=110861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}