Storm Boris leaves one dead, seven missing in Czech Republic

By : AFP

Date: 16 September 2024 10:04am WAT

A flooded street is pictured in Kappeln, eastern Austria, on September 16, 2024. - A fireman in northeastern Austria has died in flooding as the country was hit by torrential rains that have lashed central and eastern Europe, authorities said. (Photo by HELMUT FOHRINGER / APA / AFP) / Austria OUT / AUSTRIA OUT

One person was killed and seven were reported missing in the Czech Republic after flooding provoked by Storm Boris, Czech police said on Monday.

One person drowned in a stream close to Bruntal in the northeast, while authorities “recorded seven people missing”, police chief Martin Vondrasek told a radio station.

Nine people have now died across eastern and central Europe as a result of the storm, several more are missing and millions have been evacuated from their homes.

Over the weekend, six people died and one went missing in Romania, a seventh person drowned in Poland and a firefighter was killed in Austria during a flood rescue operation.