Thousands evacuated in Hungary due to floods

Floods kill one in Poland, 2,000 being evacuated
Warsaw (AFP) May 17, 2010 - A man was swept away by a swollen river and died, and nearly 2,000 people were being evacuated in southern Poland Monday after torrential rains battered the region, the fire brigade said. "The man was walking with his son next to the Koszarawa river. He was swept away by the flood waters," Jozef Pietraszko, fire brigade spokesman in Zywiec in southern Poland, told the commercial news channel TVN 24. About 2,000 people were being evacuated in the nearby Krakow region on Monday, according to Poland's national fire brigade spokesman Pawel Fratczak. Houses, roads and railways between Krakow and the southern mountain resort of Zakopane were under water as heavy rains pounded much of Poland. The national meteorological institute forecast flood waters would continue to bloat rivers Monday. Across the border in the Czech Republic, news reports said a 69-year-old woman drowned and more than 20 people were evacuated after flooding caused by heavy rainfall.

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Budapest (AFP) May 17, 2010
More than 2,000 Hungarians were evacuated from their homes after flooding from torrential rainfalls that lashed central and southeastern Europe at the weekend, rescue services said Monday.

"So far, 2,093 people have been forced to leave their houses, most of them in the northeast of the country," said a spokesman for the National Disaster Authority, Gyorgy Szentes.

In addition to the northeast, areas north of Budapest were also hit by heavy storms, even if the capital itself was spared more serious damage.

Since Saturday, the authorities have received more than 3,000 calls, Szentes said. Of these, around 1,100 concerned flooding while more than 1,800 concerned trees uprooted by winds of up to 110 kilometres (65 miles) per hour.

Road and rail traffic was disrupted, with motorways partly under water and railtracks blocked by fallen trees. A spokesman for the national rail operator MAV warned of severe delays all day.

Further storms were expected on Monday, the national meteorological service said.

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