Governments Take Measures Against Floods
Romania breached a major dike to divert floodwater threatening villages in the Danube delta, and Hungary evacuated thousands of people as swollen rivers continued to spread havoc across Eastern Europe.
Almost 8,000 people have fled their homes in the Balkans. Farther north, authorities in Hungary evacuated 4,500 more from three towns near the confluence of the Tisza and Koros rivers.
Authorities in Romania, the worst-hit country, tore a gap more than 120 feet wide in a dike on its coast to let water from Danube River, swollen by heavy rains and melting snow, flow into the Black Sea and ease pressure on hundreds living nearby.
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