At least 16 people have been killed in floods and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina after torrential rains hit the country, taking residents by surprise. A few hours after an initial death toll of 14 was announced, police spokesman Ludevit Maritsa confirmed that two more people had been found dead. “It was scary, absolutely scary,” Emir Arfajan, a resident of the village of Donya Yablanica, which was worst hit by the floods, told AFP. “Many cubic meters of water and thousands of tons of stones fell on the village. About a dozen houses were destroyed,” said the 62-year-old man, visibly angry. “People didn’t have time to… We only had a few seconds to leave. But we managed to save a child,” he added. Scenes of “apocalypse” The village, which is 70 kilometers from Sarajevo, was cut off from the rest of the world for many hours in the morning. Vehicles of the army and the civil protection service managed to approach it in the afternoon and witnessed a landscape of total destruction. The mosque was submerged in water […]
Source: News Beast
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