A man died during a flooding in a northern Adriatic Sea port in Croatia after the town was hit by a storm and a torrential rainfall, authorities said on Thursday.
Huge amounts of water drenched Rijeka on Wednesday evening, bursting into houses and submerging the town’s squares and streets.
Officials said as much rain fell in just two hours as normally falls in a month.
Emergency crews had to take out a group of children from a playroom in Rijeka as the water started coming in, said firefighter Mladen Sculac.
A local school and dozens of other buildings have been damaged in the flooding, he added.
Police found a man’s body under a car that was forced to stop in one of the streets where traffic was halted because of the storm, officials said.
The exact cause of death is yet to be determined, police said.
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