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Austria on Wednesday announced a package of measures in response to severe flooding across the country, including a tripling of the federal disaster fund and tax postponements for affected companies.

Emergency services in Austria discovered an 81-year-old woman dead in her flooded house on Tuesday, raising the total death toll in the rain-battered country to five. The woman was found in her house in Würmla,