Austria was affected overnight from Tuesday to Wednesday June 29 by heavy rains which caused floods and landslides, cutting roads and isolating villages, according to the Red Cross.
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"
Three villages are completely cut off from the world
," Melanie Reiter, spokeswoman for the organization in the Carinthia region (west) told AFP, a victim of bad weather, on the border with Italy and Slovenia.
There were no reports of injuries or deaths at this stage but several houses were apparently partially buried by mudslides.
"
The situation is worrying
," she said, while the APA news agency mentioned two missing people.
The rescuers and the army were mobilized to try to help the inhabitants in distress.
The images showed streets full of debris, roofs blown away and rivers bursting their banks.
It fell in a few hours "
as much as in a normal month of June
", underlined Gerhard Hohenwarter, of the Central Institute of Meteorology and Geodynamics (ZAMG), quoted by APA.
Austria is experiencing an extreme heat wave this week accompanied by a series of thunderstorms.
The multiplication of extreme events in Europe is, according to scientists, a direct consequence of global warming.
