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STORY: The river Danube will peak at record high levels in Budapest on Sunday and dikes have been strengthened at critical points to protect the capital from flooding, Prime Minister Viktor Orban said.
Tens of thousands have been forced to leave their homes and at least a dozen people have been killed in floods that have hit Germany, Austria, Slovakia, Poland and the Czech Republic over the last week.
The deluge reached Hungary on Friday but so far authorities, soldiers and thousands of volunteers have managed to defend the villages and towns along the river, piling hundreds of thousands of sandbags beside its dikes.
The Danube is expected to peak at 8.95 meters (30 feet) in Budapest on Sunday evening, above the 8.6-meter record in 2006 floods. At least 1,200 people from 28 towns and villages have been forced to leave their homes in Hungary and 44 roads have been closed, national news agency MTI reported.
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