Several areas hit by flooding in Romania after two days of heavy rain

Published on 30/05/2025 - 4:39 GMT+2

Strong winds and dense rains implicit the past 2 days person caused terrible flooding successful assorted parts of Romania.

Emergency services said that hundreds of radical person been evacuated from Covasna and Brasov counties successful cardinal Romania and Botosani successful the northbound east.

On Thursday, floods were threatening to destruct an aged brackish excavation successful Praid, successful cardinal Romania.

The excavation hosts beauteous galleries and a spiritual chapel and is an important tourer attraction, selling fractional a cardinal tickets yearly.

More rainfall was expected successful the coming days implicit parts of bluish Romania, officials said.

The Corund River passes implicit the Praid Salt Mine. Following the dense rains of the past fewer days, its h2o travel has reached the highest level successful the past decades. 60 cubic meters per second.

The abrupt summation of the travel caused cracks to look successful the riverbed extortion wall, and the h2o infiltrated the assemblage web successful the brackish mine, and compromised the stableness of the enactment brackish pillars and the information of the underground facilities.**

Authorities person built 2 extortion dams underground successful the brackish mine, to support the tourer and mining areas. But the National Salt Company announced that the dam successful the Telegdy excavation had collapsed.