Poland has created a crisis fund equivalent to €468 million to respond to the floods, while the Czech government plans to rejig its budget to account for damage estimated at a potential $4 billion (€3.6 billion) and Austria has tripled its disaster fund to more than €1 billion.

Soldiers and firefighters used sandbags to reinforce river embankments and delivered food and drinking water to cut-off communities as the worst flooding in years moved Tuesday across a broad swath of Central Europe,

Polish officials expect more floods to peak around Friday in southern regions, though some predict it will happen sooner. | ITV National News