Floods, Lightning Kill at Least 11

Heavy flooding and deadly lightning strikes gripped much of central and southern Poland, where at least 11 people have died as a result of storms this week, officials said.

Among the latest victims were a young man and woman killed by lightning as they sought shelter under a tree in Warsaw, police said. In the Ostrowiec Swietokrzyski region, a woman and her child drowned and a young man was killed by lightning.

Torrential rain brought flooding to hundreds of towns and villages in southern Poland, damaging roads and buildings and forcing thousands of residents to flee their homes, an official said.