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Poland and Slovakia battle floods, more evacuated
Published in Saudi Press Agency on 04 - 06 - 2010


Hundreds of people were evacuated in
Poland and Slovakia amid renewed flooding on Thursday and today, dpa reported.
Hundreds of people, including two schools and a retirement home,
were evacuated in the town of Bardejov in Slovakia's north-east,
firefighters said. Evacuations were also under way in Presov, the
region's capital.
Heavy rains fed rivers under the Tatra mountains in northern
Slovakia, flooding towns, including parts of Kezmarok, and forcing
people to evacuate their homes.
The high waters also hit Slovakia's south, where at least 150
people from several villages near the town of Lucenec were evacuated
overnight, firefighters said.
An extensive mud slide resulting from the flooding heavily damaged
some 20 homes and a new road in Nizna Mysla in eastern Slovakia, the
TA3 news channel reported. The station aired images of new houses
with severely cracked walls.
Some 300 people were evacuated from Tarnobrzeg, southern Poland,
and surrounding areas on Thursday night after a flood barrier broke
on the Vistula River. Several thousand more would need to be
evacuated, local officials said.
The waters broke through areas that had already suffered when the
floods first began two weeks ago, after days of heavy rain in
southern Poland.
Two thousand people were to be evacuated in the city of
Sandomierz, southern Poland. The city's mayor decided Thursday to
evacuate the right bank of the city. A local official said the area
was threatened because some 10 metres of needed flood barriers had
not been built in time and water began entering the city.
Some 150 residents of Piaseczno, a town some 15 kilometres outside
Warsaw, were evacuated Friday by boat as a street there came under
water.
A landslide in Ursynow, a southern district of Warsaw, prompted
eight evacuations and a street closure there.
The town of Jaslo, southeastern Poland, came under threat Friday
after some 40 metres of flood barriers broke nearby. Officials there
said several thousand would need to be evacuated, but that so far
most had not left their homes.
Some 30 homes were destroyed in the village of Klodno,
southwestern Poland, and 434 people there were evacuated. In Winiary,
central Poland, water destroyed several homes and 70 people had to be
evacuated.
The lower levels of two hospitals and a metro station in southern
Warsaw, meanwhile, were left under water Thursday after a heavy
downpour.


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