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Romanian deputy prime minister Dan Nica said Wednesday that, following the storm on Tuesday, there were floods in 15 counties and Bucharest, 140 households in 44 localities, as well as 600 hectares of crops, and five national roads were damaged.

Droughts and freezing have damaged over one million hectares of crops in fall and spring, from a total surface of seven million hectares, said Wednesday agriculture minister Ilie Sarbu.

Romanian prosecutors with the National Anticorruption Department sent to trial eight people for alleged illegal transactions facilitated by transfers of football players to foreign clubs, causing overall damages of $11.5 million.

Damages caused by floods mid-May in Romania’s northwestern county of Cluj amount to 12 million lei (EUR1=RON3.6658) and the prefect’s office is to request compensations from the government, prefect Calin Palton said Tuesday.

A man in central Romania mountain resort Sinaia remained stranded in his home when a tree uprooted by the strong winds blocked the entrance and tore the phone lines.