Government’s security council meets over floods

The government called a meeting of its security council to discuss the flood situation on Thursday morning. The meeting decided to immediately release 54 million crowns to help those hit by the floods. It also decided to send in 1,000 soldiers to dealing with the emergency. Most of these will be engineers. A call for soldiers to be dispatched had been made earlier by the regional governor of Moravia and Silesia, Jaroslav Palas. President Václav Klaus was also updated earlier on the disaster by Interior Minister Martin Pecina.