Countries in central Europe were suffering from their worst flooding in more than a decade on Sunday, after days ofheavy rains left at least one person dead and inundated homes and motorways. One woman was killed in the Czech Republic when her house waswashed away, news agency CTK said. Three others were missing, police said. In Prague, the fire department was forced to erect flood barriers to protect the capital's historic centre from the flooding Vltava River. German Chancellor Angela Merkel offered the stricken areas of her country the "full support" of the federal government, including sending military troops to aid in relief efforts, her spokesman said. States of emergency were declared and evacuations ordered a sover flowing rivers in Germany flooded roads in the eastern state of Saxony, as well Bavaria and Baden-Wuerttemberg in the south. The floods are the worst to hit the region since the deluge of2002 - then described as a "once-in-a-century event.
