Czech village relives flood nightmare all over again


  • World
  • Wednesday, 05 Jun 2013

ZALEZLICE, Czech Republic (Reuters) - It's a country that hardly saw a flood in over a century - but Eva Bittnerova has just evacuated her inundated house in the Czech village of Zalezlice for the second time in 11 years.

She is one of thousands who have been forced to pack up and seek shelter with relatives or in schools after days of rain brought a surge of water that threatened the ancient capital Prague and inundated swathes of central Europe.

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