09 August 2010

CZECH REPUBLIC/ POLAND: 1ST UPDATE: 11 Dead From Floods; More Than 5 Billion Crowns Damage In CR.

BLOOMBERG/ UPDATE: 10 Aug/    At least eleven have died and at least three are missing after heavy flooding in the Czech Republic, Poland and Germany. Early damage estimates for the Czech Republic's Liberec Region are more than two billion crowns and for the Usti Region, also in north Bohemia, more than one billion crowns. Total damage may exceed 5 billion crowns. Two water treatment plants have also been destroyed. Southwestern Poland’s Bogatynia has suffered the  worst flood damage. (Foto of Czech PM Necas)