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Sunday is expected to be partly cloudy to overcast with daytime highs between 26 and 31 degrees Celsius and rain and heat storms in many parts of the country.

The Prague Metro Authority is alerting the public to the fact that if a person falls onto the tracks in the metro there is an emergency button which will immediately stop an oncoming train. The metro authority says that people often don't know about it, which leads to tragic situations. Last week a metro train killed a blind man who fell onto the tracks at Křižíkova station. People lost time calling a police helpline, although the emergency button was close by. A similar case happened this Thursday when a drunk man fell onto the tracks at Jiřího z Poděbrad station, but luckily he picked himself up and other passengers helped him back onto the platform.

The emergency buttons are located on the platforms for each track separately. They are usually at the beginning and end of the platform, on the walls or on a pillar. There is a protective glass on them, which breaks when pushed.

Thousands of people are expected to attend the annual Aviation Day in Cheb, a spectacular show of historic and modern aircraft due to take place at the Cheb Airfield this weekend. Among this year’s attractions are the world's smallest aircraft, the only airworthy twin-engine German Messerschmitt Schwalbe jet fighter and the Catalina amphibious aircraft. The event is now in its ninth year and promises solo and group aerobatics performed by pilots from at home and abroad. There is  an accompanying program offering exhibitions of military equipment, period camps, as well as attractions for children. Visitors will also have the opportunity to enjoy sightseeing flights in various types of aircraft and helicopters.

Police are investigating the death of hundreds of fish in the Dyje River near Dačice in the Jindřichuv Hradec Region. Initial finding suggest that they were probably poisoned by sewage that got into the water. According to Lukáš Skořepa from the environmental department of the Dačice municipal authority, the fish died on a two to three kilometer stretch  of the river, but the mortality is not significant in the lower reaches. Fishermen and firefighters are now working to clean the water. The river is mostly inhabited by roach, bream, pike, pikeperch and to a lesser degree carp. The worst polluted stretch of the river is close to the wastewater treatment plant for Dačice.