[1/5]A drone view shows rescue workers searching for victims after the floods and landslides in a village of Buturovic Polje, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
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The rescue teams, sunk in mud up to their waists, were combing the vast flooded area searching for another three people reported as missing, including a married couple, villager Amel Sitar told Reuters, adding that his uncle was among the missing.
Sitar said that flash floods took away 10 houses, dozens of cows and sheep, a barn – everything the villagers owned. “There was a big house of my uncle, fish ponds, it was all gone in half an hour.”
The main road connecting central and southern Bosnia was cut off, and the railway line connecting Bosnia with the Croatian Adriatic port of Ploce was heavily damaged, posing problems for exporting companies.
Marija Buhac, prime minister of the Herzegovina Neretva cantonal government, said on Monday the government had formed a crisis team to gather detailed information on the health situation, damages and plans for recovery.
Experts say the floods in Bosnia have been particularly damaging because years of neglect of river beds, deforestation and uncontrolled construction and exploitation of wood and stone had aggravated the impact of climate change.
“It (the flood) took everything away, my tools, a car, nothing is left,” said Becir Hakalovic from Buturovic Polje. “Thanks God, the family remained.”
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