Source: ZeeNews
A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and
forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency on Tuesday,
officials said.
In Poland, meanwhile, the big freeze that is holding the rest of
Europe in its icy grip killed another six people in the last 24 hours,
the Interior Ministry said in a statement.
Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said on Tuesday that three
other people died of asphyxiation with carbon monoxide from heaters they
were using to heat their homes. The temperatures in Poland have plunged
as low as minus 32 C (minus 26 F) since the freeze began.
In Greece, rescuers had to extract five elderly people on Tuesday
from their flooded homes after the river Evros burst its banks near the
country’s northeastern border with Bulgaria. Sevaral elderly residents
were also evacuated overnight from another three villages in the area.
Evros, which enters Greece from Bulgaria and runs along the border
with Turkey, is swollen after days of heavy rainfall, compounded by a
burst dam in southern Bulgaria.
The dam on Bulgaria’s Ivanovo Reservoir collapsed on Monday, sending a
torrent into the nearby village of Bisser that killed eight people and
flooded 700 houses.
