Floods claim two more lives as torrential rain continues to batter central Europe

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One person drowned in southwest Poland, a rescue worker was killed in Austria and thousands were evacuated in the Czech Republic after heavy rain continued to batter central Europe on Sunday, causing flooding in several parts of the region.  WATCH MORE: https://thestartv.com/c/news SUBSCRIBE: https://cutt.ly/TheStar LIKE: https://fb.com/TheStarOnline

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00:00Heavy rain continued to batter central Europe on Sunday, causing massive floods in Czech

00:08Republic, Romania and Poland, and raising alarm in Germany, Austria and Hungary.

00:17Czech Republic is one of the worst hit nations with its rivers overflowed, and some areas

00:23facing the worst floods in decades.

00:26Close to 2,000 people have been evacuated, and 250,000 homes experienced power cut.

00:34And residents said their cities are underwater, and telecommunications are out of order, and

00:41they are waiting for help from the army.

01:11In Poland, one person drowned, and many more people have been evacuated in Klodsko county,

01:37as rivers broke record high levels, causing flooding in several municipalities.

02:07In Romania, villagers in Galati county returned to their homes to assess the damage after

02:21the flood waters receded.

02:41Romanian authorities said the floods had caused four casualties, damaged about 5,000 homes,

02:47and left 15,000 households without electricity.

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