Whereas rivers within the Czech-Polish border space have been beginning to recede on Monday, flooding was widening to extra components and leaving larger cities in each international locations on alert.
Within the Czech Republic, a rising Morava River in a single day put Litovel, a metropolis 230km east of the capital Prague with a inhabitants of practically 10,000, round 70 per cent beneath water and shut down faculties and well being services, its mayor mentioned in a video on Fb.
Flooded components of northeastern Czech regional capital Ostrava pressured closures of an influence plant supplying warmth and sizzling water to the town in addition to two chemical crops.
Greater than 12,000 folks have been evacuated within the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Petr Fiala mentioned on Sunday night on X as he referred to as a unprecedented authorities session for Monday.
Czech Tv reported the primary confirmed sufferer on Monday, including to casualties throughout the area.
In Romania, the flooding killed six folks over the weekend, and an Austrian firefighter died on Sunday. A person drowned in Poland on Sunday. Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Klimczak mentioned he had data on a second dying, which Reuters couldn’t instantly confirm.
