Soldiers have dropped sandbags from military helicopters to reinforce river embankments and evacuated residents as the worst flooding in years spreads across Central Europe

Watch as the swollen Danube River reaches Hungary's parliament building in Budapest as flood waters continued to rise on Friday, 20. Roads, train stations and ferries along the river, which rose by nearly one metre in 24 hours,

The Danube, which had overflowed its banks, began flooding Budapest's embankments. The cause of the flooding was Cyclone Boris, which caused a lot of precipitation. This footage illustrates flooding almost reaching the lower roads near the Danube river in Budapest,