Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes as unseasonably high flood waters threaten a large part of eastern Europe, reported the CNN.
Areas of Hungary, Romania and the Ukraine are at risk from three rivers, the Tisza, Tur and Szamos, which have been swollen by heavy recent rain and melting snow.
The Tisza, Hungary's second largest river, rose by over six meters at the weekend as a result of rapidly melting snow and two days of rain in neighboring Ukraine, said CNN.
A state of emergency has been declared in Hungary after flood waters forced the evacuation of thousands of people.
On Tuesday, more than 7,000 people were evacuated from their flood-threatened homes in eight villages, the local news agency MTI was quoted as saying.
Among them were hundreds of people evacuated from the village of Kispalad, which is adjacent to Hungary's boarders with Ukraine and Romania, after floodwaters broke through a dyke, CNN said -- Albawaba.com
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