Storm Boris pounded central and eastern Europe with torrential rains, authorities said. One person has drowned in Poland, while an Austrian fireman has died battling to floods, reports RTE.
High winds and extremely intense rains have affected large areas of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania, and Slovakia since Thursday.
Four people have already died in Romania as a result of the storm, and many more have forced to leave their homes throughout the continent.
Rescuers in Romania have verified the death of a fifth individual, they stated in a statement, reports RTE.
“We have the first confirmed death by drowning, in the Klodzko region” on the Polish-Czech border, stated Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk.
Mr. Tusk was driving through the nation’s southwest, which has been the most severely affected by flooding.
In Klodzko, some 1,600 people have been evacuated, and the Polish government has requested the army to assist the fire crews there.
In a related incident, flooding in the Lower Austria region—which has been designated as a natural disaster zone—killed a fireman in northeastern Austria, reports RTE.
Nearly 5,000 emergency services responses were made throughout the course of the night in the state of Lower Austria, where floods had left many inhabitants stranded in their houses.
After a river overflowed its banks today, Polish officials closed the border crossing at Golkowice with the Czech Republic, closed many other highways, and stopped trains on the route that connects the cities of Prudnik and Nysa.
Four persons were reported missing today by Czech police, reports RTE.
In the village of Lipova-Lazne in the northeast, three people were in a car that washed into a river; another man went missing in the southeast after being carried away by floodwaters.
A dam in the nation’s south overflowed its banks, submerging nearby towns and villages, reports RTE.
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