Daily news summary

Migrants moved to second facility for safety reasons after rioting

Around 30 migrants from an asylum facility in Bělá pod Bezdězem, East Bohemia have been transferred to another facility at Zastávka near Brno for safety reasons, the Czech News Agency reported. More than 50 migrants at the facility attempted to break out on Thursday and about 100 rioted in protest at being held there on Friday following a visit by the Czech interior minister, Milan Chovanec, and police president, Tomáš Tuhý. A bus carrying families with children and a pregnant woman left Bělá pod Bezdězem for Zastávka on Friday evening. A spokesperson for the police’s foreign department said the Bělá facility had been calm on Friday night.

July by far worst month for Czech road deaths this year with 80

Eighty people died on Czech roads in July, making it by far the worst month of the year in that respect. The highest number of deaths on one day in 2015, 10, occurred on July 23. The overall figure is five higher than for the same month last year. June has seen the second highest number of road casualties this year, with 52.

Monkeys return to enclosure at Olomouc after escaping during official opening

Several rhesus macaque monkeys that escaped from their new enclosure at the zoo in the Moravian town of Olomouc have returned. Seven of the monkeys came back to the enclosure in the night but two more were reported to still be outside its fence on Saturday; a zoo official said, however, that they were sticking close to the enclosure. Evidently disturbed by the commotion, the monkeys surprised zookeepers by managing a six-metre jump into a group of trees during its official opening on Friday.

Czech mountain climber dies after fall in Austrian Alps

A Czech mountain climber died in the Austrian Alps on Friday after falling on an ascent near the village of Leoben in the Styria region, the APA news agency reported on Saturday. The man, who has not been named, was one of a group of three attempting an 860 metre climb; in the final part he fell around 300 metres and was already dead when a rescue helicopter arrived at the scene. The Austrian police are investigating the accident.

Temperatures for August set to be above average

Temperatures in the Czech Republic will be above average in August, according to a regular four-week forecast issued by the Czech Hydro-Meteorological Institute on Saturday. The coming week will be the warmest of the month, with temperatures reaching up to 30 degrees Celsius, the forecasters said. There will also be relatively little rain in the next seven days, which will further exacerbate the worst drought felt in the country in over a decade.

One of Europe’s oldest theatre festivals underway in Hronov

One of Europe’s oldest theatre festivals, Jiráskův Hronov (Jirásek’s Hronov), got underway in the Northeast Bohemian town on Saturday. The event, which began in 1931 and has taken place every year since, is named after the locally born Alois Jirásek, who is regarded as among the greatest of Czech novelists. The programme of the week-long festival includes a broad range of theatrical productions, including experimental, student and puppet shows.

NHL players set to meet new national team coach Vůjtek

Close to two dozen ice hockey players from the NHL are due to attend informal meetings in Prague and Brno with the new Czech national team coach Vladimír Vůjtek and his assistants in the next two weeks. Vůjtek, who is 68, was appointed in June following the resignation of Vladimír Růžička, who has been accused of bribe taking. Among the NHL players set to meet his replacement in Prague on Monday is New Jersey’s Patrik Eliáš.