Heavy Flooding Strikes Balkans

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/16/world/europe/heavy-flooding-strikes-balkans.html

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The heaviest rains and floods in 120 years have hit Bosnia and Serbia, killing five people, forcing hundreds out of their homes and cutting off entire towns. “This is the greatest flooding disaster ever,” said Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic of Serbia. “Not only in the past 100 years; this has never happened in Serbia’s history.” In Bosnia, army helicopters evacuated dozens of people stranded on the top floors of their flooded homes in the central town of Maglaj, where the Bosna river swelled to record levels and swept away the main bridge. Rescuers used boats to reach stranded victims. Serbia’s energy minister, Aleksandar Antic, said power supplies were cut to about 100,000 households, mostly in central Serbia. Bosnia’s utilities reported that about 50,000 households were without electricity.