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With the Czech Republic's worst flooding in over a decade leaving “seven people dead, four missing and nine thousand evacuated from their homes”, the Prague daily reports that questions are arising over the responsibility for the damages:

“Experts claim that politicians have not taken their warning seriously enough [...] and politicians and local authorities blame fuzzy meteorological and hydrological forecasts.”

MF DNES notes that while the Vltava river peaked early in the morning after paralysing traffic in the capital, the danger has moved north, where surging waters of the Elbe continue to rise in northern Bohemia and Saxony in Germany.

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