PRIJEPOLJE

In Montenegro, heavy rain in the towns of Pljevlja, Mojkovac and Rozaje blocked roads due to rising water levels and landslides. The Interior Ministry said its Protection and Rescue Office was in constant communication with local authorities, adding that the army is on standby if the situation worsens.

Grabovica River overflowed due to heavy rain near Sjenica. 40 buildings in the Bukre settlement and six buildings in the city center were flooded, as well as the basement of an elementary school.

The state's second attempt to sell off the bankrupt Putnik Prijepolje tour company and its assets, including the Bosko Buha memorial complex in the south-western Serbian municipality of Prijepolje, was halted on Tuesday, with no reason given.

On February 27, 1993, Nail Kajevic waited in the southern Serbian town of Prijepolje for his brother Nijazim to arrive by train from Belgrade. But when the train arrived after some delay, his brother was not on it and the other passengers had a gruesome story to tell.

B92 has learned that the price is expected to be 5 to 10 percent lower than last years - when raspberry farmers were also dissatisfied.

This year they are protesting in the town of Prijepolje, and blocking the road to Montenegro.

PRIJEPOLJE - A project aimed at using biomass for district heating in Prijepolje (southwestern Serbia) and a EUR 100 million loan were the topics of a discussion between Prijepolje Mayor Emir Hasimbegovic and officials of Germany's KFW and the climate technology initiative DKTI.

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.