More than 2,000 Hungarians were evacuated from their homes after flooding from torrential rainfalls that lashed central and southeastern Europe at the weekend, rescue services said Monday.
"So far, 2,093 people have been forced to leave their houses, most of them in the northeast of the country," said a spokesman for the National Disaster Authority, Gyorgy Szentes.
In addition to the northeast, areas north of Budapest were also hit by heavy storms, even if the capital itself was spared more serious damage.
Since Saturday, the authorities have received more than 3,000 calls, Szentes said. Of these, around 1,100 concerned flooding while more than 1,800 concerned trees uprooted by winds of up to 110 kilometres (65 miles) per hour.
Road and rail traffic was disrupted, with motorways partly under water and railtracks blocked by fallen trees. A spokesman for the national rail operator MAV warned of severe delays all day.
Further storms were expected on Monday, the national meteorological service said.
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