Germany has 60,000 local emergency personnel and aid workers, as well as 25,000 federal disaster responders and 16,000 soldiers now fighting the floods. In the Czech Republic, firefighters said some 700 Czech villages, towns and cities have been hit by flooding in the last few days and some 20,500 people had to be evacuated. Some 30,000 residents in nearby Halle were urged to evacuate, meanwhile, as the Saale river reached its highest level in 400 years. So far, the floods have killed eight people in the Czech Republic, five in Germany, two in Austria and one in Slovakia.
Posted on: Thu, 06 Jun 2013 14:58:01 +0000
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