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The highest number of deaths have been recorded in Romania. Authorities said on Monday that another person died in the eastern county of Galati, bringing the total number of deaths to seven.
Hundreds of people have been rescued across 19 parts of the country, Romanian emergency services said. Source: Getty / Daniel Mihailescu
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk held an emergency meeting on Monday and later declared a disaster in flooded areas, a government measure to facilitate evacuation and rescues.
He also said the government would provide 1 billion zlotys (A$385 million) in immediate payouts to victims.
The fire brigade is evacuating residents from flooded houses in Czechowice Dziedzice, Poland. Source: AAP / Dawid Markysz
Szymon Krzysztan, 16, standing in the town square of Ladek Zdroj, described losses from the floods as “unimaginable”.
“It’s a city like in an apocalypse… It’s a ghost town,” he said.
The Polish government called a special meeting on Monday, after Prime Minister Tusk ordered the government to prepare an ordinance to declare a state of natural disaster over floods in the country. Source: AAP / Dariusz Gdesz
The death toll in Poland has risen to five after a surgeon drowned in the south-western town of Nysa.
The Oder River is expected to peak on Wednesday.
Many Polish cities have called for food donations for flood survivors. Source: AAP / Maciej Kulczynski
While rivers in the Czech-Polish border area are starting to recede, other cities have been put on alert.
In Czech Republic, a rising Morava River put Litovel — a city with a population of nearly 10,000 — around 70 per cent underwater.
Rescuers patrol flooded streets following heavy rain in the town of Ostrava, Czech Republic. Source: AAP / Martin Divisek
Schools and health facilities have also shut, its mayor said in a video on Facebook.
In Ostrava — an industrial city of 290,000 people in northeast Czech Republic — the BorsodChem chemical plant was shut, a spokesperson for the company said.
One person drowned on Monday in the Bruntál region of the Czech Republic, police chief Martin Vondrášek told local media. Source: Getty / Gabriel Kuchta
More than 12,000 people have been evacuated, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said on social media platform X, as he called an extraordinary government session for Monday.
Slovakia’s capital Bratislava and Hungarian capital Budapest are also bracing as the River Danube rises.
Hundreds of sandbags are being used to reinforce a dam in Tahitotfalu, Hungary, as the Danube river threatens to spill its banks. Source: AAP / Denes Erdos
In Austria, local media reported that two men drowned after being trapped by rising flood water in their homes
As levels of rivers and reservoirs fell, officials said they were bracing for a second wave as heavier rain was forecast.
Austria’s chancellor, Karl Nehammer, said the situation in his country “continues to worsen.” Lower Austria has been declared a disaster area. Source: Getty / Helmut Fohringer
In a message on X, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen sent words of solidarity to those affected by flooding and said the EU would provide support.
With additional reporting by Reuters and the Australian Associated Press.
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