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The death toll from the massive floods caused by heavy rains due to Storm Boris that hit Central and Eastern Europe has risen to 8 dead, in addition to many missing and thousands evacuated.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen expressed in a message on the microblogging site (X), reported by the Swiss Radio "Lac" today, Sunday, her solidarity with all those affected by the devastating floods, announcing that the European Union is ready to provide support.
The radio stated that Romania is the country most affected by the floods, followed by Poland and Slovakia, adding that after the death of four people in Romania yesterday, Saturday, the number of victims rose today, Sunday, after two more bodies were found, and another was lost in the southeast of the country, and a person drowned in Poland, and a firefighter died while doing his job in Austria, in addition to that, four people were lost in the Czech Republic.
For his part, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk called on citizens to "not refuse" their evacuation, saying that Ukraine had offered him assistance despite the war raging on its territory.

The railway traffic between Poland and the Czech Republic was cut off, as well as part of communications in Austria, and the region most affected by the storm, Lower Austria, was classified as a natural disaster area (with a population of 1,072,000 people, it is the most densely populated in the country after Vienna). According to what was reported by the Youm7 website in Cairo from the Middle East News Agency
It is noteworthy that experts from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) said - in a report issued in 2022 - that floods associated with heavy rains are expected to increase in central and western Europe in a world facing an average temperature rise of 1.5 degrees Celsius