Rescuers in Bosnia search for people missing in deadly floods

At slightest 13 radical person been killed successful the Jablanica country owed to flash floods and landslides.

Rescue teams are digging done rubble and searching for radical missing aft the worst flash floods and landslides successful years deed parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, sidesplitting astatine slightest 13 radical and injuring dozens.

The spokesperson for the authorities of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton, Darko Juka, said connected Saturday that 13 radical were killed successful the Jablanica country owed to the illness of a hill, landslides and floods successful the region.

“On Friday, we reported a fig of 16, but aft reviewing the information and assessing the concern connected the ground, the fig has been corrected to 13,” Juka said astatine a quality conference. The Jablanica country is 70km (43.5 miles) southwest of the capital, Sarajevo.

Earlier connected Saturday, N1 TV had reported 21 radical had died and dozens were missing.

A spokesperson for the Mountain Rescue Service, whose teams are progressive successful the searches, said immoderate villages were inactive inaccessible and “we don’t cognize what we volition find there.”

Heavy rainfall overnight halted rescue efforts earlier they resumed connected Saturday, Bosnian media reported.

Al Jazeera’s Arduana Pribinja, reporting from the colony of Donja Jablanica, said radical successful the country were successful “deep shock”, adding that the floods and landslides that deed connected Friday had caught galore by surprise.

“People present told maine that everything happened excessively accelerated and they didn’t person clip to evacuate,” she said.

A drone presumption shows a flooded residential country and mosque successful Donja Jablanica connected October 4, 2024 [Amel Emric/Reuters]

In Donja Jablanica, galore houses were nether rubble.

Alka Glusic, 74, mislaid a member and his 3 contiguous household members. She had stayed successful different location with her sister. “That location [her brother’s] is gone now. There is nary 1 there,” Glusic told the Reuters quality agency.

Pribinja said nationalist choler is present shifting towards the authorities due to the fact that immoderate fishy “human factors” contributed to the tragedy.

“There is simply a quarry here, … and it seems that the abrupt rainfall stripped the chromatic and rubble that triggered the landslide,” she said.

Bosnia’s Central Election Commission decided to postpone section elections this play successful municipalities affected by the floods but to transportation connected with voting elsewhere.

The Bosnian Football Association has postponed each matches crossed the country.

Meteorologists accidental utmost upwind tin beryllium attributed to clime change. Human-caused clime change, for example, increases the strength of rainfall due to the fact that lukewarm aerial holds much moisture.

This summer, the Balkans were besides deed by long-lasting grounds temperatures, causing a drought. Scientists said the dried-out onshore has hampered the absorption of floodwaters.

Flooding was besides reported successful Croatia and Montenegro this week but caused little harm and nary fatalities.

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Al Jazeera and quality agencies