Budapest: The river Danube was set to reach record levels in Budapest on Sunday night and dikes have been strengthened at critical points to protect the capital from flooding, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
Tens of thousands of people have been forced to leave their homes and there have been at least a dozen deaths as a result of floods that have hit Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic over the past week.
The deluge reached Hungary on Friday but so far authorities, soldiers and thousands of volunteers have managed to defend the villages and towns along the river, piling more than three million sandbags beside its dikes.
Carmaker Suzuki, one of Hungary's main exporters, will halt production at its plant in Esztergom, north of Budapest, on Monday because of the floods, spokeswoman Viktoria Ruska told Reuters....
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