PRAGUE - Around 200,000 people have been evacuated in the Czech Republic due to the rising floodwaters that have ravaged the country since last week, Interior Minister Stanislav Gross said Tuesday.

Some 15,000 firefighters, police and military have been working around the clock to stave off disaster in the capital Prague and much of Bohemia, and have rescued about 1,000 people, the minister said after a crisis cell met over what has became the worst flooding in the country in nearly a century.

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