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Posted Tue May 20 2014: from
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Floods affect over 1 million in Balkans, destruction "terrifying" http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1400616525
Bosnia said on Monday that more than a quarter of its 4 million people had been affected by the worst floods to hit the Balkans in living memory, comparing the "terrifying" destruction to that of the country's 1992-95 war.
The extent of the devastation became apparent in Serbia too, as waters receded in some of the worst-hit areas to reveal homes toppled or submerged in mud, trees felled and villages strewn with the rotting corpses of livestock.
The regional death toll reached more than 40, after the heaviest rainfall since records began 120 years ago caused rivers to burst their banks and triggered hundreds of landslides.... Authorities in Bosnia issued a fresh warning about the danger of landmines left over from the war and now dislodged by the flooding..."I thought the war was as bad as it can get, but it can get worse,"...
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