BRATISLAVA (Reuters) - The death toll from Monday‘s floods in eastern Slovakia has risen to 28, mostly children, and 45 people are still missing, the Slovak Interior Ministry said on Wednesday. Several rivers swollen by heavy rains burst their banks late on Monday, sending torrents of muddy water gushing through at least 20 villages and Gypsy encampments. „From this morning there were 28 registered dead, most of whom are Gypsy children, and 45 missing. We expect these numbers to change,“ Interior Ministry spokesman Jan Bazovsky told Reuters. He added that it was too early to estimate how much damaged had been caused. Many of the dead were from the village of Jarovnice devastated when the swollen Mala Svinka river smashed buildings, uprooted trees and overturned cars. Throughout the night hundreds of rescue workers struggled through thick mud to dig out bodies dead and reach the ruins of flattened houses. Forecasters said further local storms were possible in eastern Slovakia, an area of wooded hills, on Wednesday.