PRAGUE, Sept 16 — More rivers in central Europe spilled their banks today in flooding that has killed at least 10 people from Poland to Romania and left many towns submerged or hit by gushing, debris-filled waters after days of heavy rainfalls.

Border areas between the Czech Republic and Poland were hit hard over the weekend. Some bridges collapsed and homes were destroyed, while villages and towns in eastern Romania were submerged

Poland’s government was due to meet this morning to call a state of disaster.

While rivers in the Czech-Polish border area were starting to recede today, flooding was widening to more parts and leaving bigger cities in both countries on alert.

In the Czech Republic, a rising Morava River overnight put Litovel, a city 230km east of the capital Prague with a population of nearly 10,000, around 70 percent under water and shut down schools and health facilities, its mayor said in a video on Facebook.

Flooded parts of north-eastern Czech regional capital Ostrava forced closures of a power plant supplying heat and hot water to the city as well as two chemical plants.

More than 12,000 people have been evacuated from the Czech Republic, Prime Minister Petr Fiala said yesterday evening on X as he called an extraordinary government session for today.

Czech Television reported the first confirmed victim today, adding to casualties across the region.

In Romania, the flooding killed six people over the weekend, and an Austrian firefighter died yesterday. A man drowned in Poland yesterday. Infrastructure Minister Dariusz Klimczak said he had information on a second death, which Reuters could not immediately verify.