(19 Sep 2024)
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Budapest – 19 September 2024
1. Wide of Hungary’s parliament building with Danube River in foreground
2. Various of Danube, street sign partially submerged by water
3. Debris in water caught next to sign post
4. Hungary’s parliament building with Danube River in foreground
5. Various of people looking at Danube
6. Wide of Hungary’s parliament building with Danube River in foreground and partially submerged street signs
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Flood waters continued to rise in Hungary on Thursday as authorities shut down roadways, rail stations and ferries along the Danube River.
In the capital, Budapest, water spilled over the city’s lower quays and threatened to reach transport infrastructure like trams and metro lines.
The high water level was visible opposite Hungary’s parliament building in Budapest with some street signs partially submerged by the Danube.
Further upriver, in a region known as the Danube Bend, homes and restaurants near the riverbanks were inundated as officials and volunteers continued to place sandbags to reinforce levees.
Nearly 6,000 professionals, including members of Hungary’s water authority and military, have been mobilized to assist in flood preparations, Prime Minister Viktor Orbán said in a news conference Thursday morning.
The Danube rose nearly one meter (3.3 feet) in 24 hours, and by Thursday morning stood at 771 centimeters, approaching the 891-centimeter record set during major flooding in 2013.
AP video by Darko Bandic
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