Four die in Romanian floods as rain lashes Europe

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Four people have died in Romania due to floods caused by torrential rain sweeping through central and eastern Europe, emergency services have said. Elsewhere on Saturday, the highest flood alert was declared in 38 locations across the Czech Republic. In the capital Prague, the city's flood barriers have been raised, embankments have been closed to the public, and the zoo has been closed, Czech authorities said. Evacuations have also started in Poland as rivers rise to dangerous levels. The four dead people were found in the southeastern Romanian region of Galati during a search and rescue operation, emergency services confirmed to the AFP news agency. "Dozens of people were rescued from their homes in 19 areas of the country," they added.
In Poland, Interior minister Tomasz Siemoniak said residents in the small towns near the Czech border of Morow and Glucholazy, were facing a dangerous situation. In the Glucholazy the river level had exceeded a safe level by two metres and residents living in nearby streets have been evacuated. “The situation looks very bad. The state of the river and the forecasts about its state are still bad,” Mr Siemoniak said. “We have a difficult situation in four rivers, potentially threatening evacuations and damage in several towns,” he added. Since Thursday, Cyclone Boris has brought strong winds and torrential rain to parts of Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia. The Czech capital is taking no chances, after floods that devastated the city two decades ago. Images from 2002 of flooded metro stations, residents being evacuated in rubber dinghies and elephants drowning in the Prague Zoo are seared into the local memory. Shortly before 10:00 (08:00 GMT) on Friday, a heavy steel gate, one metre thick, closed off the so-called Devil's Canal or Certovka, a sliver of water that slices through the historic Mala Strana district of Prague before rejoining the River Vltava.

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