At least 10 people have died and tens of thousands have been evacuated.
Some bridges collapsed, and homes were destroyed, while villages and towns in eastern Romania were submerged.
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Factories and stores across central Europe shuttered production lines and closed their doors on Monday due to flooding that has killed at least 10 people, forced tens of thousands of evacuations and submerged towns from Poland to Romania.
In Ostrava - an industrial city of 290 000 people in northeast Czech Republic - BorsodChem chemical plant has been shut, a spokesperson for the company, partially owned by China's Wanhua Chemical Group, said.
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