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Friday, May 16, 2014

Boats pluck people from roofs as floods sweep Serbia and Bosnia

People sit in a boat after being evacuated from their flooded houses in the town of Obrenovac, east from Belgrade By Fedja Grulovic OBRAC Serbia (Reuters) - Boats sailed through the streets of a Serbian town on Friday on a mission to rescue people trapped by rising waters as the worst floods ever recorded swept Serbia and Bosnia. Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said all 25,000 citizens would have to be evacuated. Thousands have been evacuated from homes in central and western areas of Serbia and in neighbouring Bosnia. Around 135,000 households were without power across Serbia and the government approved emergency electricity imports.




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