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LONDON, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- Flash floods have killed as many as 11 people in parts of Poland, Germany and the Czech Republic, officials said.
Hammering rains slammed parts of Europe over the weekend, isolating some towns and villages, washing out bridges, swamping roads and bursting a dam, London's Financial Times reported Monday.
A Polish firefighter said the scene in Bogatynia, in southwestern Poland, was "apocalyptic." Much of the town of 20,000 was flooded when the Miedzianka River crested, killing one victim, he said.
Another five people died in the northern Czeh Republic and three were missing, and three died in the German town of Neukirchen, the report said.
The weekend storms mark the third time this year that the region has been hit by flooding.
Both Poland and the Czech Republic offered to provide financial aid to those affected by the flooding.
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