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At least 15 people have been killed in flooding in Poland as a result of heavy rains that have poured down on the country since last week, say Polish officials.The country’s main river, the Vistula, burst its banks last weekend, flooding thousands of hectares of land in the south of the country. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate their homes across the nation due to the rising waters.
The situation was bad on Monday in the village of Swiniary, 50 miles northwest of the capital of Warsaw as water levels in the Vistula River remained high.
Helicopters and boats have been shown on TV helping evacuate people from the rooftops of their flooded homes. At a press conference, Jerzy Miller, minister of Internal Affairs and Administration warned people to “evacuate now.”
Miller further said that authorities were able to monitor evacuated areas with the help of helicopters equipped with infrared cameras, according to a press conference he held on Monday, as reported by the Polish Press Agency.
