Paris shuts down metro line, Louvre to follow as Seine rises - flooding in France, Germany and Belgium

Paris has shut down its underground metro line as water levels in the river Seine keep rising following days of rain. Staff at the Louvre museum have been told the venue will close tomorrow. Floods have inundated parts of France, Germany and Belgium, killing five people as rivers broke their banks from Paris to Bavaria. More rain is forecast for the coming days in some regions, and authorities in Paris predict the Seine River will not reach its peak until tomorrow. Tourist boat cruises have been cancelled and several roads in and around the capital are under water, further disrupting travel on top of train strikes this week. Days of heavy rains have caused exceptional delays to the French Open tennis tournament in Paris and may force it into a third week. The rain that has fallen across Western Europe this week has already killed five people, including an 86-year-old woman who died in her flooded home in Souppes-sur-Loing, south-east of Paris. In Germany, four people have been confirmed killed in the flooding, which swept through the towns of Simbach am Inn and Triftern near the Austrian border. Others have been reported missing. The southern German state of Bavaria, which has...