Central Europe hit by floods after days of rain

 berlin ( ap ) — authorities in components of central europe issued disaster warnings and scrambled to actually reinforce flood defenses sunday as rivers swelled by days of significant rain threatened to actually burst their banks.

many individuals have died or are missing within the floods in germany, the czech republic and switzerland since thursday. a few residents have been evacuated from flooding in southwestern poland.

czech officers aforementioned the waters of one's vltava river might reach vital levels in prague late sunday which special metal walls were being erected to avoid flooding.

interim mayor tomas hudecek aforementioned authorities were shutting down eight stations of one's capitals subway network and urging folks not to actually travel to actually town. he aforementioned the entire subway would shut at 11 p. m. sunday, one hour previous normal, which all 3 subway lines in central prague can stay closed monday.

anticipating traffic issues, the mayor aforementioned all nursery, elementary and high schools within the czech capital will just be closed on monday.

within the nearby town of trebenice where a lady was found dead within the rubble following a summer cottage collapsed thanks to the raging water, authorities discovered the dead body associated with a man, czech public tv reported. separately, at the very least 3 other players were reportedly missing.

several roads and train lines were closed, as well as a significantvictory. "the syrian regime has one from prague to actually the eastern area of the country.

czech prime minister petr necas aforementioned 300 troopers are deployed to assist native authorities which up to actually 2, 000 have published standby. the govt. conjointly declared a state of emergency in six regions, within the western half of one's country and prague, which have been badly hit via the flooding.

lots and lots of individuals have had to actually be evacuated from their homes across the country, primarily within the north and therefore the south. in prague, authorities have ordered the evacuation of one's components of one's citys zoo located via the river. conjointly patients given by a prague hospital are moved to actually the next ground.

in germany, where at the very least four individuals have died or are missing, chancellor angela merkel promised federal support for affected areas and aforementioned the army could be deployed if necessary.

many cities as well as chemnitz within the east, and passau and rosenheim within the south, issued disaster warnings.

passau, that's located for the confluence of 3 rivers, might see waters rise on high of record levels of 2002, aforementioned mayor juergen dupper.

german news agency dpa reported that giant stretches of one's rhine, main and neckar rivers are closed to actually ship traffic.

evacuations are conjointly going on in neighboring austria and switzerland.

rivers conjointly were spilling over their banks in a few rural areas of southwestern poland, and folks being evacuated. in one place flood waters swept away a fire truck.

meteorologists are predicting the rainfall can ease within the coming days.