Flooding across central Europe caused more disruption with three more bodies found in Poland and Slovakia, taking the total death toll to nine, authorities announced Tuesday.
In Poland, an eight-year-old boy drowned in the southern city of Krakow and the body of an 80-year-old woman was recovered Tuesday morning from a highland stream in the southern mountain resort of Zakopane.
Five people have now been killed in the floods in Poland over the last three days, national fire brigade spokesman Pawel Fratczak told AFP. Rescue workers were still searching for one man swept away Monday by a flooded river in the south, he said.
Poland's Prime Minister Donald Tusk visited flooded areas where some 2,000 residents were evacuated since Monday.
The interior ministry said flood waters were receding from some roads in the south of the country. The museum site of the former Nazi German Auschwitz death camp remained closed Tuesday due to a high flood risk, museum spokesman Jaroslaw Mensfelt said.
In Slovakia, fire brigade officials found the first flood victim Tuesday.
"We discovered the body of a man aged 62 in a river which burst its banks Sunday in Nitrianske Sucany" in central Slovakia, fire brigade spokesman Marian Petrik told AFP.
A 69-year-old woman drowned Monday in a flooded river in the eastern Czech Republic. Floods also cut electricity to 3,500 homes in the region Tuesday.
Fresh evacuations were ordered overnight, notably in the village of Troubky — population 2,000 — where nine people died and 300 homes were destroyed in 1997 during the worst flooding in memory.
Czech Prime Minister Fischer, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk and their Slovak counterpart Robert Fico coordinated anti-flood measures, the Czech CTK news agency reported.
In Serbia, two people died Sunday in flooding caused by heavy rains in the south of the country, according to the Beta news agency.
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