Police find body of flood victim

Police have found the body of a woman who went missing in the flash floods in the northeast of the country, the Czech News Agency reported on Thursday.

The 74-year-old woman was swept away by a swollen stream in the village of Oskava in the Šumperk region on June 7. Rescue workers found the body six kilometres away from where the incident happened.

Flash floods that hit several regions of the Czech Republic in recent weeks claimed nine lives in total.