The death toll is rising in central Europe as receding waters reveal the huge scale of the destruction caused by exceptionally heavy rains.
A massive flood wave moving across central Europe is threatening new areas and raising concerns among residents and leaders.Heavy rains caused flooding and the evacuation of some 1,000 residents in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna.The death toll was rising in central Europe, as receding waters were revealing the huge scale of the destruction caused by exceptionally heavy rains that began a week ago.
Some 400 people remain in evacuation centres in the regional capital of Ostrava and are not able yet to return home. Further upriver, in a region known as the Danube Bend, homes and restaurants near the riverbanks were inundated as officials and volunteers continued to place sandbags to reinforce levees.
Concerned by the scope of the destruction and the need for immediate aid, Prime Minister Donald Tusk invited von der Leyen to Wroclaw to see the situation with her own eyes.To the south in Italy, about a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported on Thursday.
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