(17 Sep 2024)
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Bratislava - 17 September 2024
1. Wide of Danube
2. Children's playground flooded
3. Wide of flooded restaurants along the riverbank
4. SOUNDBITE (Slovak) Jakub Mrva, Deputy Mayor of Bratislava:
"The Danube water level peaked at about 970 centimeters. It will remain at this level for several hours. After that, it will slowly decrease. This means that the situation here, and in Devín, is still very serious."
5. Pan of Danube
6. SOUNDBITE (Slovak) Jakub Mrva, Deputy Mayor of Bratislava:
"Regarding the damage, we will wait to assess it until after the water level along the Danube has lowered. However, what we already know is that there is significant damage to the tram lines and bus routes. We also observed major damage at the zoo, which is flooded, and there is relatively high damage in the city forests of Bratislava, where many trees have perished."
7. Flooded banks, sandbags placed along path
8. Uprooted tree
9. Various of flooding along riverbank
10. Water pouring from barrier
11. SOUNDBITE (Slovak) Jakub Mrva, Deputy Mayor of Bratislava:
"The mobile barriers, which belong to the Bratislava Water Management Company, are crucial as they were able to withstand this water level, and they would be capable of holding off even more water. They saved the historical center as well as the other side of the river from being flooded."
12. Wide of people walking along riverbank pathway
13. Wide of people walking past barriers
14. Wide of flooded jetty walkway
15. Wide of flood barriers
16. Pan from barriers to street
17. Mid of flooding along riverbank
19. Wide of Danube
STORYLINE:
The River Danube, Europe's second-longest river, burst its banks in the city of Bratislava on Tuesday, flooding parts of the Slovak capital.

Heavy flooding has affected a large part of the region in recent days, including neighbouring Czech Republic and Austria.

There have been at least 17 deaths reported in the flooding across the region, which followed heavy rainfall.

In Bratislava, river bars and restaurants were flooded, but the major barriers that city officials put in place prevented the water from reaching residential areas.

Deputy Mayor of Bratislava, Jakub Mrva, told The AP in an interview that the Danube water level "peaked at about 970 centimeters" and that the water spill had damaged the city's tram lines and bus routes.

“We also observed major damage at the zoo, which is flooded, and there is relatively high damage in the city forests of Bratislava, where many trees have perished,” Mrva said.

However, Mrva explained that the level of the Danube had peaked and would slowly decrease.

Other river cities in the region are now bracing for the flood waves, including Budapest, the Hungarian capital on the Danube River, and Wroclaw, a city in southwestern Poland on the Oder River.

AP video shot by Tomas Hrivnak

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