One man was killed and some 380 people were forced to flee their homes overnight as more flooding swept through the Czech Republic, police said Sunday.
Firefighters overnight evacuated several villages and two holiday resorts near Strakonice and Prachatice in the southwest, which has been hit with heavy rainfall.
The one fatality was a 47-year-old man whose body was found late Saturday in a river.
"He had no doubt been taken by surprise by the sudden rising of the water while he was trying to remove some machines from his workshop," said police spokesman Jiri Cernenko.
Heavy floods have also inondated the northeast of the country and claimed at least 13 lives since Wednesday, authorities said on Sunday.
The weather service has warned that torrential rains and storms could continue to Wednesday.
In 2002 catastrophic floods swamped a large part of Bohemia, including several districts of the capital Prague, leaving 17 people dead and causing damage estimated at three billion euros (4.2 billion dollars).
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