The death toll in Poland's flooding reached 12 on Saturday while flood barriers broke in Wroclaw, southern Poland, and left a neighborhood there under water. Flood barriers broke in Wroclaw in two separate spots, hitting a neighborhood that was also badly effected in nationwide flooding in 1997, dpa reported. Residents were shown on TVN 24 yelling, running and throwing bags of sand as flood waters leaked through a barrier and gushed into the street. Others jumped from first-story balconies to escape. Later residents lined up at another spot to pile bags of sand and keep the waters from moving higher. People were seen filling bags with sand from a nearby playground sandbox as bags ran short. The problem was the barriers were too high, and not wide enough, Rafal Dutkiewicz, the president of Wroclaw, told the broadcaster.
