-ROMANIA — RELEASED ON MAY 29, 2025 — RESTRICTION: USERS MUST CREDIT "ROMANIAN GENERAL INSPECTORATE OF EMERGENCY SITUATIONS" HANDOUT — EDITORIAL USE ONLY — Severe flooding has swept across Romania over the past three days, prompting widespread evacuations in several regions. Approximately 400 people from four counties in Romania — Botosani, Brasov, Covasna, and Vrancea — have been evacuated, according to Romania's General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations. Rising floodwaters are also threatening the Praid Salt Mine, one of the largest salt reserves in Europe. "The situation is complicated. When water comes into contact with salt, it immediately dissolves it and creates a hole," Sorin Rindasu, the head of the Emergency Situations department in the Romanian Waters Administration, said.