Severe flooding struck St Anton in Austria.
© Fiss Volunteer Fire DepartmentSevere flooding struck St Anton in Austria.
"Heavy storms have done great damage in many parts of Austria," the country's chancellor Karl Nehammer says.

Heavy rain in Austria has left parts of Vienna under water and caused severe damage in parts of the country.

Fast-moving torrents of muddy water swept cars through the ski resort of St Anton in western Austria.

A woman was dragged under a bus by the force of flooding in the Dobling area of Vienna.

She was reportedly taken to hospital in a critical condition.



Fire services in Austria's capital city were called out more than 450 times on Saturday amid the heavy rainfall.

"Heavy storms have done great damage in many parts of Austria," the country's chancellor Karl Nehammer said.

In Dobling, officials registered 110 litres of rain per square metre, which ORF Vienna meteorologist Kevin Hebenstreit said was a record for August rainfall in the city.

A large proportion of Vienna's average summer rainfall hit on Saturday in just one hour, according to weather data firm UBIMET.