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Dying toll reaches 16 as ‘dramatic’ flooding in central Europe continues

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The loss of life toll from torrential rain and flooding in central and japanese Europe has risen to at the least 16, with a number of extra folks lacking, as authorities reported deaths within the Czech Republic, Poland and Austria and warned the worst could also be to come back.

The variety of victims in Poland rose to 5 after a surgeon getting back from work drowned within the south-western city of Nysa, the place the hospital was evacuated and sufferers rescued by raft. 4 extra folks had died within the southern cities of Bielsko-Biała and Lądek-Zdrój, firefighters mentioned.

In Austria, native media reported that two males aged 70 and 80 drowned after being trapped by rising flood water of their properties within the cities of Böheimkirchen and Sierndorf, each within the hard-hit north-eastern state of Decrease Austria.

The Czech police chief, Martin Vondrášek, advised native radio a girl had drowned in a stream that overflowed its banks close to Bruntál, a city of about 15,000 folks within the north-east of the nation, whereas seven extra folks have been nonetheless unaccounted for.

Tens of hundreds of individuals have been evacuated from their properties throughout a swathe of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia as Storm Boris unleashed the worst flooding recorded within the area for greater than 20 years. It was described by one Romanian mayor as a “catastrophe of epic proportions”.

The flood water burst dams, inundated streets, knocked out electrical energy and in some locations submerged complete neighbourhoods. “I have lived here for 16 years and I have never seen such flooding,” one Austrian lady, Judith Dickson, advised public radio.

Seven folks died in Romania over the weekend, in addition to one in Poland and a firefighter in Austria. The rain was anticipated to ease in lots of areas on Monday however, with some rivers unlikely to succeed in peak water ranges for days, a number of main cities have been making ready for doubtlessly disastrous flooding.

Flooding harm in Vápenná in north-east Czech Republic. {Photograph}: Motion Press/Rex/Shutterstock

Excessive rainfall is changing into extra frequent and extra intense due to human-caused local weather breakdown throughout a lot of the world, notably in Europe, most of Asia, central and japanese North America, and elements of South America, Africa and Australia.

Poland’s prime minister, Donald Tusk, declared a state of emergency within the flooded areas and introduced an emergency support fund of 1bn zlotys (£200m), whereas his counterpart in Hungary, Viktor Orbán, cancelled all his worldwide engagements.

Tusk mentioned he was in contact with the leaders of different affected nations and that they’d ask the EU for monetary assist. “From today, anyone affected by the flood – flooding, collapsed buildings, flooded garages, lost cars, losses linked to the flood – will be able to easily [claim funds],” he mentioned.

Greater than 2,600 folks have been evacuated throughout Poland within the final 24 hours, in response to the defence minister, Władysław Kosiniak-Kamysz.

Standing within the city sq. of Lądek-Zdrój in south-western Poland, Szymon Krzysztan, 16, described the destruction as “unimaginable … It’s a city like in an apocalypse… It’s a ghost town.”

Jerzy Adamczyk, 70, mentioned the scene resembled “Armageddon”. He added: “It literally ripped out everything because we don’t have a single bridge. In Ladek, all bridges have disappeared. We are practically cut off from the world.”

The German chancellor, Olaf Scholz, described pictures from the flooded areas in Austria, the Czech Republic, Romania and Poland as “dramatic” and mentioned Germany was “deeply saddened by the news of dead and missing people” and able to assist.

Torrential rain and flooding hits central and japanese Europe – video report

Hungary’s capital, Budapest, was bracing for extreme flooding because the Danube rose. The inside minister, Sándor Pintér, mentioned efforts have been centered on holding the river and its tributaries inside their banks and mentioned as much as 12,000 troopers have been on standby.

Slovakia’s capital, Bratislava, was additionally on a excessive state of alert, whereas the 600,000 residents of Wrocław in Poland have been advised water ranges may not peak earlier than Wednesday. Austria’s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, mentioned the state of affairs in his nation “continues to worsen”, notably in Decrease Austria, which has been declared a catastrophe space.

Greater than 10,000 aid staff had evacuated 1,100 homes within the state, he mentioned. Decrease Austria’s governor, Johanna Mikl-Leitner, mentioned folks there have been going through “difficult and dramatic hours … probably the most difficult hours of their lives”.

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The municipality of Lilienfeld, with about 25,000 residents, was utterly reduce off from the surface world, native media reported. To this point 12 dams had damaged and hundreds of households have been with out electrical energy and water, authorities mentioned.

“It is not over,” Mikl-Leitner added. “It stays critical. It stays dramatic.” She mentioned there there was a excessive danger of extra dams breaking and it was as but too early to evaluate the dimensions of the harm.

The Czech prime minister, Petr Fiala, urged folks to “follow the instructions of mayors and firefighters”. As of Sunday night, he mentioned, emergency companies had handled 7,884 incidents and 119,000 households have been with out energy.

At the least 12,000 folks had been evacuated from their properties throughout the nation, Fiala mentioned, including that though the rain had stopped in probably the most affected areas, the state of affairs would develop into crucial for others because the storm strikes westwards and rivers proceed to rise.

“Very difficult days for many people, unfortunately, continue,” Fiala mentioned on Monday, with 207 areas throughout the nation going through flood situations. Probably the most crucial state of affairs was in southern Bohemia, he mentioned, including: “Please be careful and responsible.”

The rising Morava River put about 70% of the Czech metropolis of Litovel, 140 miles (230km) east of the capital, Prague, underwater in a single day, its mayor advised native media, shutting down faculties and well being amenities.

Within the nation’s third largest metropolis, Ostrava, an influence plant supplying warmth and sizzling water was compelled to close down. 1000’s have been evacuated from their properties in Krnov and Český Těšín.

In Opava, as much as 10,000 folks out of a inhabitants of about 56,000 have been requested to maneuver to increased floor. “There’s no reason to wait,” the mayor, Tomáš Navrátil, advised Czech public radio, saying the state of affairs was worse than throughout devastating floods in 1997, often known as the “flood of the century”.

Romania’s prime minister, Marcel Ciolacu, mentioned the nation would “clean up and see what can be salvaged”, including that in contrast with the worst latest flooding in 2013, “the amount of water was almost three times bigger”.

One resident of the Romanian village of Pechea, within the stricken Galati area, advised Agence France-Presse: “The water came into the house, it destroyed the walls, everything. It took the chickens, the rabbits, everything. It took the oven, the washing machine, the refrigerator. I have nothing left.”

The local weather emergency is inflicting extra incidents of maximum rainfall as a result of hotter air can maintain extra water vapour. Flooding has almost certainly develop into extra frequent and extreme in consequence, however different human components, equivalent to flood defence planning and land use, are additionally necessary.

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