Tuesday, 10 August 2010 08:46

Berlin, 10 ago (EFE) .- At least 30 animals in the zoo in the German town of Zittau (east), near the border triangle of Poland and the Czech Republic, drowned by the flood that shakes the area since last Weekend and begins to subside, today announced its director, Bernd Großer. Among the animals killed were 10 of the 11 llamas in its possession the center. There are also horses, pigs, birds and an armadillo between animals drowned. Großer appealed request for assistance. "We still have animals in distress, we can save them, but not all," he said.

The German authorities reported today that the flood is still sending in the federal states of Brandenburg and Saxony, but the alert remains in some areas.


The death toll in Germany remains at three, a retired couple and a neighbor are retired and also drowned on Saturday to be trapped in the basement of their home when they tried to salvage belongings.


In the city of Dresden (Saxony) the level of the Elbe river begins to drop slowly, announced today the responsibility for civil protection, Uwe Höhne, who warned that the forecast predicts more rain for Thursday.


If early morning height was 5.34 meters Elba, at noon down to the 5.28 meters.


The level of the Neisse river and flooding also decreases refer to the Fürst-Pückler Park, declared World Heritage by UNESCO and near the town of Bad Muskau.


"We were lucky," said Cornelia Wenzel, director of the Foundation Fürst-Pückler.


The situation in Guben (southwest of Brandenburg) remained "critical" in the morning, he told the radio station RBB Prime Minister of the German federal state, Matthias Platzeck.


Platzeck said that some inmates of the local hospital had to be evacuated for several hours until the afternoon.


At 6.30 am the Neisse river on its way through Guben were placed in 6.40 meters, four centimeters below the level 4 alarm floods.