Flood Death Toll Hits 7 in Romania, Danube Rising
Date: 10-Sep-07
Country: ROMANIA
Heavy rains have washed away dozens of homes in Vrancea,
Bacau and Vaslui counties since Wednesday, forcing hundreds out
of their homes.
"The death toll has risen to seven people, one is still
missing and 1,391 persons were evacuated," said deputy interior
minister Victor Dobre.
Meanwhile in Austria, heavy rains that started on Wednesday
swelled some rivers feeding into the Danube. The Kleine Ybbs
river in the Lower Austria province reached its highest level in
a century and flooded 120 buildings in the town of Ybbsitz.
Firemen and soldiers piled up sandbags to protect an
embankment in the town of Lilienfeld at the Traisen river, where
rain began falling again overnight. The Traisen also flooded
streets in Lower Austria's capital St Poelten.
The Danube is expected to reach its peak level -- which will
remain well below the catastrophic floods seen in 2002 -- around
midnight near Vienna and early Saturday morning downstream near
the Hungarian border.
