© AP Photo/Katarzyna MalaFirefighters deliver food to residents in Cisek, in southern Poland.
National police spokesman Mariusz Sokolowski said Friday the victims drowned in flooding that submerged some farms and residential areas in southern Poland following heavy rains.
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said the high water levels were receding slowly. Further north, in Warsaw, water levels on the Vistula river were expected to peak Friday.
Residents of the capital were working with thousands of firefighters and police officers to strengthen dikes on the river with sandbags to protect areas that could be at risk - including the zoo.
The situation in Poland is really tragic. Thousands of buildings were flooded. Thousand of people evacuated. The most affected is South and Central Poland, but the wave is coming North now.
And it will be raining. More.
This is definitely the coldest and dampest May I remember. Almost no sunny days at all.