Aid delivered on the ground

Firefighters searched the rubble on Friday while the army sent in a team with heavy engineering equipment to deal with the aftermath of the strongest storm in the central European nation's modern history and its first tornado since 2018.

In the village of Hrusky, with a population of 1,600, a deputy mayor estimated that a third of the houses were destroyed and many needed inspections before people could safely return.

Emergency crews from neighbouring Poland, Austria and Slovakia fanned out across the region, 270 kilometres southeast of Prague, to assist.

Source: https://www.abc.net.au/news/[hidden]/czech-republic-tornado-kills-five/[hidden]