Five people died in floods which swept across eastern and southern Romania at the weekend, damaging hundreds of homes and disrupting road and rail traffic, authorities and media said on Sunday.
Three children and an elderly woman in the eastern county of Vaslui drowned after being caught by swollen rivers when coming back from the fields. Officials said another woman, aged 76, was killed by swollen waters in the south-eastern county of Tulcea.
Nearly 1,000 houses were flooded in the Balkan country, with over 350 houses damaged the southern county of Constanta, the worst hit by the floods.
Television images showed tourists walking waist-deep in water on the streets of Black Sea resorts and cars stuck on roads with water nearly reaching the windscreen.
Authorities said about 200 litres of rain per square meter fell in Constanta over the past 24 hours, exceeding the sewage system's capacity.