Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes across Hungary amid widespread flooding for the second time in a fortnight, emergency services said on Wednesday.
Although heavy rainfall abated overnight, much of north-east Hungary remains on high alert, with several rivers still expected to rise to record levels, the region's flood defence coordinator Csaba Csont told the state news agency MTI.
By morning, 17 villages in the north-eastern Borsod County had been cut off after roads were submerged, and the Hungary-Slovakia border crossing at Satoraljaujhely was closed to traffic, DPA reported.
Some 2000 people had to be evacuated on Tuesday from their homes in Paszto, 70 kilometres north-east of the capital Budapest, as a reservoir threatened to overflow.
This situation comes just a fortnight after floods in Hungary's wettest May on record saw many homes destroyed and left at least two people dead.