The death toll of the floods in Central Europe rose to 12 today, as emergency forces continued their cleanup activities in several countries, according to dpa. This week's flash floods in eastern Czech Republic killed 11 people, officials said Friday, while rescuers were searching for a missing rafter who was assumed to have drowned in the country's south. "We have warned people but they are still on the river even with children," Petra Krainova, a spokeswoman for the Vltava Watershed, told the German Press Agency dpa. In addition, one man drowned in Poland in high waters engulfing the region around the south-eastern town of Ropczyce Thursday evening, the Polish press agency PAP reported Friday. As waters continued to retreat, hundreds of soldiers were deployed in the Czech Republic, as well as in eastern Austria, where they pumped down water and cleaned out mud-filled basements. In Hungary's capital Budapest, the Danube was expected to peak at just over seven metres above its normal level on Sunday morning. Emergency services were on standby with sand bags. Among Hungary's worst hit areas this week was the town of Szentgotthard on the Austrian border, after the river Raab rose above its previous record, set in 1965.