Flooding in central Europe is continuing to cause extensive damage, and has now claimed three lives.

Two people were killed in the eastern Slovenian region of Celje, where rescue workers have been sent in to help thousands of stranded people.

In Romania, where floods killed another person, a number of rivers have flooded their banks.

Damage has been reported in about twenty counties and six thousand people have been evacuated from their homes.

And in the Zakarpattia region of western Ukraine, reports say two cities and more than one-hundred villages and towns have been flooded.

The Slovenian information service says the flooding has now begun to abate and the German authorities have allowed river traffic to resume on the Rhine and Neckar rivers.