The worst floods ever to affect much of the Balkans have left at least 30 people dead in Bosnia and Herzegovina, leaving hundreds of thousands without homes and raising fears about the landmines planted during the country's 1992-1995 war. The most critical situation was between Zenica and Zepce, Topcic Polje and Zeljezno Polje, where entire villages were swallowed by earth, according to rights group Society of Threatened Peoples. The cities of Orasje and Brcko in northeast Bosnia, where the Sava River forms a natural border with Croatia, were in danger of being overwhelmed. He believes the autonomous Bosnia's Serb Republic is trying to conceal information to the public and playing down the disaster because of this year's elections.
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