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LUCANI - A commission tasked with assessing damage to agricultural crops has submitted to the Serbian government a preliminary report estimating the damage caused by floods in the Lucani municipality to be RSD 46 million.

An overflowing municipal dam flooded on Wednesday night the village Gyurgich and affected several other villages in Vidin region, northwestern Bulgaria. 

No one was injured, as the residents were evacuated, but the tidal wave destroyed bridges and sewers and flooded homes and fields. The electricity, according to the public broadcaster BNT, was also cut.  

BELGRADE - Around 5,000 hectares of agricultural land in Serbia have been fully or partially flooded, but the torrential floods should leave no long-term consequences on the land affected, Serbia's Minister of Agriculture Dragan Glamocic has said.

The exact information and the extent of damage to agriculture will become known in the coming days, Glamocic told the RTS on Tuesday.

BELGRADE - The government of Serbia warned on Tuesday about the danger of a new flood wave, which is expected in Serbia in the next two days, and the possible landslides in the flood affected areas once the water retreats.

BELGRADE - Water levels in most flood affected areas in Serbia are stagnating or declining, except in the South Morava river basin, south Serbia, while other parts of the country are under threat from rockfalls and mudslides following the floods.

Heavy rain, causing rivers to overflow, has killed four people, including a child, in the Teleorman county of southern Romania, according to the authorities. Two other people are still missing and hundrends have also been evacuated because their homes flooded.

State of emergency in parts of Serbia due to flooding

Three people drowned on Monday in a flooding in Southern Romania, with a 13-year-old boy among them.

Two more have been reported missing after heavy rainfall caused rivers to swell, according to Bulgaria's public broadcaster BNT.

Traffic is disrupted on a few roads after the flooding caused landslides.

State of emergency in parts of Serbia due to flooding

BELGRADE -- The West (Zapadna) Morava River overflowed its banks on Monday morning, the Interior Ministry's Sector for Emergency Situations has said.

11 municipalities in Serbia, including Kursumlija, Prokuplje, Doljevac, and Žitorađaare in a state of emergency due to floods.

According to reports of public broadcaster RTS, as cited by the Bulgarian Telegraph Agency, the local Red Cross unit announced that it had sent aid to the affected areas, including Kursumlija, Doljevac and Prokuplje.

Fatal car crash near the town of Sandanski, accident on Hemus motorway, heavy rains and floods marked the Holy Saturday in Bulgaria.

Four young people - two boys and two girls were killed in a car crash on the main road E-79 near Sandanski, BGNES reports.