‘Catastrophic’ moment entire town is submerged in water after dam bursts

At slightest six radical person died arsenic dams neglect to clasp backmost floodwaters successful eastbound Europe.

Brown waters person been filmed carrying debris fractional a storey precocious arsenic they gush done towns and villages successful the country’s southbound west.

Aerial footage shows full settlements submerged.

This includes the Kłodzko Valley, wherever the archetypal decease by drowning was confirmed by Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk this morning.

One idiosyncratic who filmed flooding successful Stronie Śląskie, a municipality adjacent the Czech border, said: ‘A catastrophic hydrological concern with an overflowing and damaged retention reservoir nearby.’

At slightest 4 radical were killed successful Romania, and a firefighter has died successful Austria portion responding to the flash floods submerging overmuch of cardinal and eastbound Europe.

One antheral is missing aft being washed distant successful Czechia wherever different dam burst and 3 radical successful a car were swept into a river.

The deluges were sparked by the torrential rains of Storm Boris.

It’s damaged thousands of homes crossed Austria, Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania.

Rescue teams person had to evacuate and rescue thousands of radical trapped by flooding successful the worst affected areas.

It is simply a ‘catastrophe of epic proportions’, according to Emil Dragomir, politician of Slobozia Conachi, a colony successful eastbound Romania, wherever 700 homes were flooded.

Romania’s President Klaus Iohannis said: ‘We are again facing the effects of clime change, which are progressively contiguous connected the European continent, with melodramatic consequences.’

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