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Two dead in Poland amid devastating floods

Two dead in Poland as massive floods sweep through south-western regions

17:24, 15.09.2024
  Ammar Anwer/kk;
Two dead in Poland as massive floods sweep through south-western regions At least two people have died in Poland following devastating floods that have been sweeping through the country’s south-western regions throughout the weekend, damaging infrastructure and destroying homesteads.

At least two people have died in Poland following devastating floods that have been sweeping through the country’s south-western regions throughout the weekend, damaging infrastructure and destroying homesteads.

The authorities have described the situation in Poland's south-western regions as being very dramatic. Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński
The authorities have described the situation in Poland's south-western regions as being very dramatic. Photo: PAP/Maciej Kulczyński

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The authorities have described the situation as being very dramatic as several dozen rivers in the region are above the alarm level.

The first casualty was reported in Kłodzko County, which Prime Minister Donald Tusk said was the worst hit area of the country. “The situation is very dramatic,” he told reporters on Sunday morning after a meeting in the town of Kłodzko, which was partly under water as the local river rose over 6 meters.

That surpassed a record seen in heavy flooding in 1997, which partly damaged the town and claimed 56 lives across Poland.

The second casualty was reported in the afternoon in Bielsko-Biała in the Śląskie province.
Infrastructural damage

The floods also caused a bridge to collapse in the historic Polish town of Głuchołazy near the Czech border.

Firefighters and local residents had spent several dozen hours protecting the bridge with sandbags and cobble stones on top of the construction to make it heavier and more resilient.

An official from the regional State Fire Service said that the water had also damaged the structure of a new river crossing, now under construction. Floodwaters also breached a dam in the town of Stronie Śląskie in the Dolnośląskie province, Grzegorz Walijewski from Institute of Meteorology and Water Management (IMGW) told Polish state news agency PAP.

“This is no longer a dramatic situation, this is a tragedy,” he stressed. In response to the worsening situation, emergency services, including firefighters and military personnel, have been mobilized.

Helicopters have been deployed in the Opolskie province to rescue residents stranded on rooftops due to rising water levels. The authorities have also deployed the satellite-based Starlink service to areas suffering from power and communications outages.
A regional catastrophe

The relentless floods have wreaked havoc across Central Europe throughout the weekend.

Overflowing rivers killed four in Romania on Saturday, after days of torrential rain in a low-pressure system named Boris.

Some parts of the Czech Republic faced the worst flooding in almost three decades.

Reuters footage showed flood waters gushing through the north-eastern village of Lipova-lazne and neighboring Jesenik, damaging some houses and carrying debris. Emergency services in Lipova-lazne used a helicopter to evacuate stranded people.

Overall, more than 10,000 people had been evacuated in the country, the head of the fire service told Czech television.
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