Water was continuing to rise Tuesday in rivers in the mountainous western provinces of Vorarlberg and Tyrol after heavy rain overnight that caused cuts in telephone service and made many roads unpassable, the state news agency APA reported.

One person was found dead in Langenfeld in the Tyrol region, apparently killed in a rockslide.

In the town of Reuthe in western Austria, six people were injured, three of them burned badly, when flood waters set off an explosion, for as yet unclear reasons, in their house, APA said.

A total of 450 soldiers have been mobilized to help out firemen in the west and south of the country. Vice Chancellor Hubert Gorbach left Vienna Tuesday for a look by helicopter at the situation.

In the southern province of Styria, where a 50-year-old woman died Monday when her home in the town of Gasen was hit by floodwaters, water levels were starting to drop.

The woman's mother-in-law, aged 77, survived, APA reported, despite earlier reports that she had died in hospital.

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