Heavy rains and a rapid thaw have also caused flooding in neighboring Hungary and Romania, where authorities ordered mass evacuations. A total of 136 houses have collapsed in Hungary's northeastern region and 30,000 people have been driven from their homes in two dozen villages. In Romania, more than 3,700 people were evacuated from their villages. Ukraine's Emergency Ministries said people living alongside the Tissa were still bolstering dykes with sandbags. The authorities said floods, though an annual occurrence, were particularly severe this year.
Experts blame flooding on extensive felling of forests, which increases the spring runoff.
Flooding was at its worst in Ukraine's Carpathian regions in 1998, when 10 people died and more than 24,000 were left homeless. Ths website is designed and maintained in cooperation with HelpForMyWebsite.