Severe flash flooding hits Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, causing severe power cut and promoting evacuations.
The floods also caused the closure of a key facility for oxygen used for COVID-19 patients and submerging roads.
Hundreds of people have evacuated their homes in the Sarajevo suburbs, along the rivers Bosnia, under unrelenting heavy downpours.
Most parts of Sarajevo were left for hours without electric power due to the flooding of one of the main substations on the outskirts of the city.
Rising rivers flooded many local roads around Bosnia, forcing some schools to cancel classes.
The rain started late on Thursday and forecasts say it will continue to fall until Sunday, raising fears of a repeat of record flooding that affected about a third of the population in 2014.
It followed days of unseasonably warm weather with temperatures of more than 20 degrees Celsius (68 Fahrenheit).
Earlier, an UN-appointed panel of experts said that the earth is getting so hot
that temperatures in about a decade will probably blow past the most ambitious threshold
set in the Paris accord.
UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres described the report as a “code red” for humanity.
He stressed that it “must sound a death knell for coal and fossil fuels before they destroy the planet.”
