Bosnia floods and landslides depart 14 dead

Flash floods and landslides in central Bosnia-Herzegovina have left at least 14 people dead, with towns and villages cut off and alerts in some places of homes being almost subcombined.

Some of the worst scenes were in the area around Jablanica, a town on the main route between the cities of Mostar and the capital, Sarajevo. about 70km (40 miles) to the north-east.

Dozens of people have been alerted leave outing and a state of aelevatency has been proclaimd.

Development minister Vojin Mijatovic shelp the country had witnessed a horrible calamity and pguideed for tranquil.

Rivers burst their prohibitks after an overnight storm and aerial photos showed many towns and villages left inundated.

Roads, bridges and railway tracks were washed away or blocked by debris, while landslides left houses buried in rocks and earth as high as their upper storeys.

The main M-17 route, which runs alengthyside the River Neretva was covered in debris shut to Jablanica and a 17km-stretch of railway was awfilledy harmd between csurrenderby Ostrozac and Grabovica to the west. One 200m stretch of track was left hanging in the air by a landslide shut to the river south of Jablanica.

The local authority in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton alerted drivers to shun hazardous roads around Jablanica.

Further east alengthy the Neretva river, one homeowner telderly Bosnian media that water had flooded house at 03:30 on Friday and that they exposedly handled to save their son before escaping to neighbours and seeing their house collapse.

Meanwhile, 20km to the west of the capital around around Kiseljak, a torrent of water flooded the streets, leaving cars subcombined.

The flooding was not restrictd to Bosnia. In neighbouring Montenegro, roads were washed away leaving the village of Komarnica cut off.

Water levels were also rising in some of Croatia’s rivers, and the rulement in Zagreb shelp there was a hazard of some areas in the city of Karlovac being flooded shut the Kupa river.

Much of Central Europe was hit by floods last month, with some of the worst dehugeation in Poland, the Czech Reaccessible and Romania.

Scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group shelp one four-day period had been the rainiest ever sign uped in the region. They shelp the floods had been made much worse by climate alter.

Europe is the speedyest-hoting continent. The last five years were on mediocre around 2.3C hoter than the second half of the 19th Century, according to the Copernicus climate service.