Poland: Two New Deaths from Bad weather Boris, Six Total Dead in the Country · Global Voices

Huge are the problems Boris has caused in with two more people losing their lives and the death toll has reached six. Police in Poland “has information on six people whose death may be due to drowning,” police headquarters in X said referring to bad weather. With the two more dead in Poland the number of victims from bad weather in central and eastern Europe has reached 21. There is no way that the number of victims in Poland will increase, as the local Polish authorities are also talking about other dead, without however giving more evidence, and without confirmation from the police. “We ask everyone not to broadcast false information to the media about the number of victims from the floods,” said police on platform H. According to the local police representative of the town of Klotzko, in southwestern Poland, two new victims were found dead today. It is a 82-year-old man found inside the skeleton of a car and a man found near a local river. “Everything suggests that their death is due to the floods,” Violeta Martusevska told the French Agency. Photos: REUTERS/Kapper Pempel