More than a dozen killed amid flooding in Central Europe

Officials in the Polish city of Nysa on Tuesday asked all 44,000 residents to evacuate to higher ground as floodwaters threatened to breach an embankment separating the city from a nearby lake. At least 19 people have died across Austria, Romania, Poland, and the Czech Republic as Storm Boris has battered the region with heavy rains since late last week. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on Sunday declared a state of natural disaster and allocated more than $260 million for communities affected by the floods. Several train routes in Poland have been suspended due to flooding and schools and office buildings across Central Europe were closed Tuesday.

What areas are still at risk of more flooding? Communities along the Danube River on Tuesday reinforced embankments with sandbags and closed sections of cities that are most likely to flood. Budapest Mayor Gergely Karácsony said the city is expected to see the largest floods in a decade. The Croatian Meteorological and Hydrological Service on Tuesday warned that the Danube could experience an extremely rare water increase in the country. Officials in the city of Wroclaw, Poland, on Tuesday continued reinforcing river banks as the Oder River continued to rise and experts were monitoring other rivers in the region.

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