Authorities in Romania and Bulgaria were working frantically yesterday to shore up flood defences after the Danube reached its highest levels for more than a century.

Emergency teams and soldiers were trying to prevent further flooding, after a weekend in which hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes. Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria were the worst hit.

Melting snow and steady rain have seen the Danube, which flows from Germany and Austria through the Balkans to the Black Sea, reach levels not seen since 1895. In Romania officials have taken the drastic step of deliberately flooding farmland and forested areas to protect towns.
guardian.co.uk

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