Flood damage tally in for South Moravia

Officials have completed calculations of damages caused by early summer floods in South Moravia. Regional governor Michal Hašek told reporters on Thursday that the total damage amounted to 316 million crowns (roughly 16 million US dollars). State and business properties were the worst affected; damage to state property such as roads and sewage canals amounted to 160 million crowns. The flooding took one life, that of a middle aged man who slipped into a river.