<x0) Seven Dead in Europe Amid Major Floods

Part of Austria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Romania and Slovakia have been hit by strong winds and extremely severe rains since Thursday.

Austria's deputy doctor, Werner Kogler, has announced that a fireman had died fighting floods in Lower Austria after authorities declared the province, which surrounds the capital, a disaster zone.

Some areas of Tirol were covered with up to three feet [1 m] of snow an extraordinary situation for mid - September, which saw temperatures of up to 30 degrees Celsius last week.

Railway services were suspended east of the country, and several subway lines closed in Vienna, where the Wien River was threatening to get off its shores.

It is known that emergency services made nearly 5,000 overnight interventions in Down Austria, where floods had blocked many residents in their homes.

Firefighters have intervened some 150 times in Vienna to clear roads blocked by storm waste and pump water from cellars, local media reports.

Poland's prime minister, Donald Tusk, said a person in the Clovis region had drowned.

Tusk was traveling southwest of the country, which has been hit hardest by floods, writes the Guardian, records Telegrafi.

An estimated 1,600 people have been evacuated to Clovis, and Polish authorities have called the army to support firefighters at the scene.

“Situate is very dramatic”, Tusk said after a meeting in Clovis, which was partly underwater after the local river rose to 6.7m high above the 2.4m alert level.

This surpassed a record set during the great floods in 1997, which partially damaged the city and claimed 56 lives

Polish authorities closed the Gołkowice border crossing with the Czech Republic after a river flooded its banks, and closed several roads and stopped trains on the line connecting the cities of Prudnik and Nysa.

In Budapest, officials raised alarm for the Danube growth, while the rain continued in Hungary, Slovakia and Austria.

After the projections, one of the biggest floods of the past years is approaching Budapest, but we are prepared to treat it”, said Budapest Mayor Gergely Karacsony.

Meanwhile, police in the Czech Republic said four people have disappeared.

In a social networking message, Czech police called on people to pay attention to evacuation warnings, adding: “Police and firefighters know what they are doing and why they are doing it. The situation is changing quickly and we cannot be anywhere immediately. In a few moments, the only way out could be by helicopter”

Five people have died from floods in southeastern Romania over the past two days.

In the most affected region, Galati in the southeast, 5,000 homes were damaged.

Romania's President Klaus Iohannis said: “We are again facing the effects of climate change, which are increasingly present on the European continent, with dramatic consequences”.

Hundreds of people have been rescued in 19 parts of the country, emergency services said, publishing a video of flooded houses in a village on the edge of the Danube.

“This is a disaster of epic size”, said Emil Dragomir, mayor of Slobozia Konachi, a village in Galati where 700 houses were reportedly flooded.

Otherwise, Slovakia has declared its state of emergency in Bratislava.

Heavy rains are expected to continue at least until Monday in the Czech Republic and Poland.