Sabac

Flooded areas more stable; 30,000 evacuated

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Interior Ministry (MUP) announced on Tuesday morning that so far 30,873 people have been evacuated from their homes threatened by the floods.

Death toll reaches 20, new evacuations ordered

ŠABAC, OBRENOVAC -- Local authorities in the town of Šabac, in western Serbia, on Monday announced that two more people had lost their lives in the floods.

SABAC - The situation in Sabac is serious, but stable nonetheless, with all previously taken measures for protecting the town from the rain-swollen Sava River still in force, Boban Birmancevic from the Sabac emergency headquarters said on Monday.

SABAC - The city administration in Sabac said on Monday that two people had died in that municipality in western Serbia, most likely because they had not followed the evacuation order, so the authorities appealed to the citizens to comply with the instructions of the headquarters for emergencies because the situation with the river Sava was still critical, despite the dropping water level.

Situation stable at power plant in eastern Serbia

BELGRADE -- The Serbian Interior Ministry said on Monday morning that so far 25,070 people had been evacuated from their homes due to the severe flooding.

Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have reported a death toll of at least 20 in the worst floods in the region in more than a century.

Serbia's Interior Ministry confirmed there had been at least 15 deaths in Serbia and another five in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina but unconfirmed reports put the numbers even higher, at over 30.

Town of Šabac safe, flood victims in Obrenovac

BELGRADE, ŠABAC -- The bodies of those who perished in the flood in Obrenovac are being recovered on Saturday, MUP Emergency Sector chief Predrag Marić has said.

But he told a news conference in Belgrade that authorities would not reveal the number of victims "until flood waters have subsided."

PM in dramatic appeal to "defend town at any cost"

BELGRADE -- Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić late on Friday described the situation in Serbia, struck by severe flooding, as "catastrophic."

He said the number of victims in Obrenovac was "not small," and warned that the town of Šabac - upstream from Belgrade on the Sava River - "must be defended at any cost."

Serbia battles floods, more than 7,600 evacuated

BELGRADE -- More than 7,618 people have been evacuated in Serbia in the past two days as the country battles severe flooding, the Interior Ministry has announced.

SABAC - The Sabac headquarters for emergencies has proposed that the road between Sabac and Sremska Mitrovica be closed because the Sava water level near that industrial city in western Serbia has risen by 80 percent in one day.

Preparations for protecting the city from the flood are under way, because the Sava is expected to reach a historic high in the next 48 hours.