Balkans Submerged by Historic Floods Threatening Thousands
More than 20 people have been killed in the worst floods in more than a century in Serbia and Bosnia.
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A group is evacuated on an amphibious vehicle over flooded streets in the town of Obrenovac, Serbia, on May 17, 2014.
Landslides triggered by unprecedented rains in Bosnia have left
hundreds of people homeless, while thousands more have fled their homes
in neighboring Croatia and Serbia as Balkan countries battle the
region's worst flooding since modern records began.
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Children sit in a bus after being evacuated from the flooded town of Obrenovac, Serbia, on May 17.
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Homes sit submerged due to overflowinh rivers in Doboj, a northern city of Bosnia and Herzegovina on May 16.
More than two dozen people have died, said authorities, who warned the death toll could rise.
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Serbian
army soldiers evacuate people from a flooded house in the town of
Obrenovac, Serbia, on May 16. Rapidly rising rivers surged into homes,
sometimes reaching up to the second floors, sending people climbing to
rooftops for rescue.
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People
stand in their apartments as they wait to be evacuated in the flooded
town of Obrenovac, Serbia, on May 17. Authorities said 25 people have
died but warned the death toll could rise.
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A group is evacuated on a boat over flooded streets in the town of Obrenovac, Serbia, on May 17.
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Serbian army soldiers evacuate a boy from a flooded house in the town of Obrenovac, Serbia, on May 17.
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Houses
sit damaged from heavy rains in Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina on May
17. Throughout hilly Bosnia, floods are triggering landslides covering
roads, homes and whole villages. About 300 landslides have been
reported, and stranded villagers often are being rescued by helicopter.
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More than 20 dead, thousands evacuated in Bosnia, Serbia floods
OBRENOVAC, Serbia Sat May 17, 2014 2:14pm EDT
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People stand in their apartments as they wait to be evacuated in the
flooded town of Obrenovac, southwest of Belgrade, Serbia May 17, 2014.
Credit: Reuters/Marko Djurica
(Reuters)
- More than 20 people have been killed in the worst floods in more than
a century in Serbia and Bosnia, authorities said on Saturday, with
thousands evacuated from towns still under threat from rising rivers.
The
death toll in Bosnia alone reached 19, including nine found on Saturday
when waters receded from the northeastern town of Doboj.
Thousands
of volunteers joined soldiers, police and fire-fighters in building
flood barriers made of sandbags in the Serbian capital Belgrade and the
western town of Sabac.
The
River Sava hit its highest-recorded level in Serbia, the army said,
rising at a rate of three centimeters (one inch) per hour after several
days of the heaviest rainfall in almost 120 years.
Three
people were confirmed dead in Serbia by Friday, and Prime Minister
Aleksandar Vucic said there were more fatalities in the town of
Obrenovac, 30 km (18 miles) southwest of Belgrade, where soldiers
deployed huge amphibious vehicles to rescue hundreds of people crammed
into a primary school.
Authorities in
Serbia said they would not give a death toll for Obrenovac, a town of
some 30,000 people, until the waters had receded and the extent of the
damage was clear.
A Reuters photographer said the entire town center was submerged under two to three meters (seven to 10 feet) of water.
Tens of thousands of homes in Serbia were cut off from electricity and around 150,000 in Bosnia, where Doboj suffered the most.
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