Floods kill six Romanians, six missing

BUCHAREST, July 1 (Reuters) Six people were killed and six others missing after torrential rains flooded villages in northern Romania, the Interior Ministry said today.

The most affected county was Suceava, close to the northern border with Ukraine, where the deaths occurred. Floodwaters killed five peasants in the village of Arbore and another one in the village of Cacica.

About 530 people were evacuated from eight counties, most of them in northern Romania, and around 2,700 homes were damaged.

Late in June, floods killed 12 after rains flooded villages across the Black Sea state of 22 million people.

In April, the swollen Danube river rose to its highest levels in more than a century, forcing 15,000 people to flee their homes and swamping vast tracts of land in Romania's impoverished countryside.

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