Soldiers and firefighters used sandbags to reinforce river embankments and delivered food and drinking water to cut-off communities as the worst flooding in years moved Tuesday across a broad swath of Central Europe,

More than a dozen people are dead after severe and historic flooding in parts of Europe over the weekend overtook several towns with some places now seeing water levels recede, but more rain is expected to arrive.

Floodwaters have ravaged cities throughout Central Europe this past week, wreaking havoc and leaving everything in a pool of murky water.