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.

The flooding has swamped parts of the four countries as a low-pressure system crossing the region has unleashed record-high rains for days.

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,