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Extreme flooding continues in southwestern Sweden

Xinhua, December 7, 2015 Adjust font size:

The risk of flooding on Sunday remained high in parts of southwestern Sweden after heavy rains continued, local media reported.

The region saw between 30 and 60 millimeters of rainfall on Sunday, the daily newspaper Dagens Nyheter reported, the same intensity as the day before following a storm that swept most of the country on Friday.

"We have not seen the peak yet. We expected it to come today or tomorrow. But the highest levels have not yet been reached," Henrik Spangmyr, a hydrologist at the Swedish weather service SMHI, told news agency TT.

Several rivers near Sweden's second largest city Gothenburg had overflown following the downpour and a number of roads in the region had been affected, Dagens Nyheter reported.

SMHI had issued a Class 3 warning, the highest on its scale, for parts of the Bohuslan, Vastergotland and Halland provinces. Residents there should expect "extremely high water streams" of the kind only seen once every 50 years, the agency said.

"Many streams are rising. It is too early to say where they will rise the furthest and whether it will be as bad as the prognoses suggest," said Spangmyr. Endit