About 2,000 residents of the city of Nysa have helped the defense forces and the fire brigade in protecting the dam.
The dam protecting the city of Nysa threatens to break in Poland, which is being battered by storm Boris.
In southwestern Poland near the Czech border the mayor of Nysa Kordian Kolbiarz on Monday afternoon asked all of the city’s 44,000 residents to evacuate to higher ground.
The news agency Reuters and the British public radio BBC report on the matter, among others.
About 2,000 city residents have helped the defense forces and the fire brigade in protecting the dam. So women, men, children and the elderly have formed a human chain to move the sandbags, says Kolbiarz, according to German public radio ARD’s Tagesschau.
The Polish government has declared a state of natural disaster emergency in the country. Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk promised one million zlotys, or about 230,000 euros, to the victims of the floods and says that the country is applying for emergency funding from the EU.
At least 17 people have died in the floods.
The city of Nysa is flooded in Poland. REUTERS
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