photo - smc.huUPDATED - Three people died as floods hit Lower Silesia, Saturday night, Sunday morning: hundreds have been evacuated and some areas have no electricity, water or telephone communications.
Two died and 600 nhabitants of the town of Bogatynia close to the Czech and German border in southern Poland evacuated after heavy rain flooded the area over the weekend.
The town had no electricity or running water, Sunday morning as a nearby river broke its banks.
A fire fighter died in Radomierzyce, Zgorzelec, Lower Silesia, in a return of the floods which first devastated many parts of the country in May and June.
“It was the worst night of my life. Six hundred people evacuated. Parts of buildings no longer exist. There is no drinking water. Bogatynia still lacks electricity and telephone communications,” Bogatynia Mayor Andrew Grzmielewicz told TVP television.
Interior Minister Jerzy Miller is to visit the area to see how rescue operations are proceeding.
Five brigades from Germany are now in the towns assisting Polish fire fighters.
Five people in the Czech republic and three in Germany also perished in the floods on Saturday.
The weather forecast for Sunday warns of storms heading for the centre and north of the Poland, with Mazovia, Podlasie and Baltic Sea coast districts expecting 50 mm of rain in some places and winds up to 50 kilometres per hour.
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source: IAR/TVP
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