Heavy snow is disrupting transport in the Alps, while southern Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic face red alerts for heavy rain.

In Austria, a firefighter died while working in the floods, Austrian Vice Chancellor Werner Kogler wrote Sunday on X. The firefighter died after “slipping on stairs” while pumping out a flooded basement in the town of Tulln, the head of the fire department of Lower Austria, Dietmar Fahrafellner, told the AP on Sunday.

Flooding caused by heavy rain is affecting a wide area of Central Europe - with at least 18 people dead across Poland, Austria, the Czech Republic and Romania. Late last night Czech Prime Minister Petr Fiala posted on X about the impact of flooding in the country.

Heavy rains caused severe flooding in Central Europe, affecting countries like Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania.

The nations of Central Europe are bracing for severe flooding forecast to hit the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Germany, Slovakia and Hungary over the weekend.

Catastrophic flooding has killed at least seven people in Central and Eastern Europe, where more severe weather is expected this week.

Central Europe is experiencing the worst floods in at least two decades, with a trail of destruction from Romania to Poland and and the deaths of at least 23 people so far.

By Kuba Stezycki, Janis Laizans and Radovan Stoklasa WROCLAW, Poland/OSTRAVA, Czech Republic (Reuters) -Volunteers and emergency workers raced to secure river banks in Poland's historic city of Wroclaw on Tuesday,