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BELGRADE - Serbian Railways CEO Dragoljub Simonovic has voiced expectation on Monday that rail traffic in Serbia will get back to normal very soon, expect on a stretch of the Belgrade Bar rail line.

Simonovic explained that flash floods dislocated a 1.5 km stretch of tracks by as many as five meters, while a mudslide blocked access to the railway near the village of Gradac.

BELGRADE - So far 25,070 people have been evacuated from areas threatened by floods in Serbia, including 7,800 people from Obrenovac, a town near Belgrade that was completely flooded and where the situation is the worst, the Ministry of Interior stated on Monday.

SVILAJNAC - The swollen Great Morava river has flooded a regional motorway leading to Svilajnac, hampering efforts to deliver relief aid to the flood-hit town in central Serbia, Svilajnac Mayor Predrag Milanovic told Tanjug on Monday.

Parts of the road connecting Svilajnac with the motorway from Belgrade to Nis (E75) has been flooded.

An aerial view of the flooded city of Orasje on Sunday. Russian cargo planes and rescue teams from around Europe on Sunday joined huge volunteer aid efforts in swathes of Serbia and Bosnia where at least 44 people have died in the worst floods in over a century.

Belgrade mayor Sinisa Mali said that the city was braced for another potential flood wave on Tuesday after widespread devastation caused by heavy rains drove tens of thousands from their homes in Serbia in recent days.

Official sources say at least 44 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina in what has become the worst floods in the region in more than a century.

Unconfirmed reports say at least 30 people have died in the devastating floods that have hit Bosnia. Most perished in unexpected flash floods and sudden landslides that have marooned towns and left thousands homeless.

The water level of the Danube River near Bulgaria's Lom rose by 54 centimeters over the past 24 hours to 824 centimeters, causing the lowest sections of the port to get flooded.

Work continues only in the high berths of the port complex, while the activities at the other ones have been stopped and power supply has been cut, according to reports of the Bulgarian National Radio.

Pope calls on faithful to pray for flood victims

ROME -- Roman Catholic Pope Francis has called on the worshipers gathered at St. Peter's Square in Rome to join him in prayer for the flood victims in the Balkans.

Mentioning the floods in the region during his weekly address, he also told the the families of the victims that they had his support.

Official dismisses rumors about number of victims

BELGRADE -- People cannot return to their homes in Obrenovac because there are still no conditions for that, while the rumors about the number of victims are false.