Flood-ravaged Bohumin asking for help from the government

The flood-ravaged town of Bohumín in the Karviná region is asking the government for help in dealing with the problems brought on by the floods. Electricity supplies from the flooded power station in Pudlov has been restored, but the town is not able to supply heat and hot water to thousands of  inhabitants and the authorities fear they will not able to resolve the problem before the onset of cold weather. Two thirds of the town’s heat and water boiler facilities are reported to have been completely destroyed by the floods.