WARSAW, Poland (AP) — The death toll in Poland from recent floods has risen to nine after two more bodies were found, the national police chief said Saturday.
One person is still missing, police chief Marek Boron told a government meeting on the consequences of the disaster floods that hit southwestern Poland earlier this month.
The flooding after heavy rain flooded houses and damaged bridges and roads in the towns of Stronie Slaskie, Nysa and many villages in the area. More than twenty people had died from the floods in Poland and elsewhere in Central Europe.
Among the dead in Poland was a German citizen, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said earlier this week.
