Oldest Czech dies at 107

The oldest citizen of the Czech Republic has died at the age of 107, the daily Právo reported on Friday. Mr Josef Flandera, who was born in a Czech community in Ukraine, came to then Czechoslovakia with the exile Czechoslovak army, and settled in northern Moravia after WWII. Mr Flandera, who would have turned 108 in June, died on Saturday shortly after being released from hospital. The oldest Czech is now Julie Vašíčková from the south Moravian village of Prušánky, who was born in 1903, 15 years before the foundation of Czechoslovakia.