Storms and floods in western Ukraine and neighbouring Romania have killed 26 people and forced tens of thousands to flee their homes. Rescuers evacuated nearly 20,000 people from villages in the Ukraine.
More than 40,000 houses and 34,000 hectares of farmland remain partially flooded in Ukraine, while more than 900 bridges and hundreds of kilometres of roads were damaged. Flash-flooding also hit Romania, where President Traian Basescu warned the region faced an ecological disaster if lakes containing potentially lethal mining waste overflowed.
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