Fifty homesteads cut off from rest of world

PRIJEPOLJE - Fifty homesteads in the villages around Prijepolje, southwestern Serbia, are cut off from the rest of the world because of heavy snowfall, but the authorities are working to clear local roads.

The thickness of the snow cover reaches 1 m in some locations and the villages have been without power for several days, local official Goran Vujasevic told Tanjug on Tuesday.

All the resources available have been put to use to clear the roads, and the mountain service has also joined the effort to help in special situations, like illnessses and deaths.

As for the possibility of the River Lim rising too high, the beds of all the rivers along the Lim basin vulnerable to flash floods have been cleared.

Photo Tanjug Video, camera operator Zoran Djurovic