Floods in BiH: The most difficult situation in the northwest of the country – BBC News in Serbian

They swelled the rivers, flooded houses and fields, people who make embankments hoping to protect their homes.

Beautiful precipitation led the spills of the rivers and caused floods in parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and Croatia.

More cities and municipalities in BiH declared an extraordinary defense against floods due to the spill of the rivers Bosna, Vrbas, Sana, Sava and Fojnica.

An extraordinary situation was declared in Banja Luka.

In Laktaši, Modriča and Prijedor, water penetrated dozens of households, while school classes were suspended in dervettes due to flood risk.

Dozens of local roads are closed for floodinghassle and landslides.

In the West of Serbia, the river Jadar and Drina near Loznica and Sava near Sabac, which was declared an extraordinary flood defense, while regular defense against floods was declared on the water unit  » They said from SerbiaVode.

For now, there is no need to evacuate the population, but from the Sector for Emalapy Situations, Kolubar, Zlatiborski and other counties are controlled by Macva, Collubar, Zlatibor and other counties.

The water level will also grow in Lima, Lima, Uba, Tamnava, Likodre, Ljubovije, Skrupeža, Đetinje, Moravice and Bjelice for the next 48 hours, They say from the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute (RHMZ).

« Abundant precipitation are expected, especially in the east of Serbia, » they announced Friday.

By Tuesday, we expect to calm the water level, said Goran Puzović, director of the Public Water Management company « Srbijavode ».

The floods also hit Croatia, and is most critical in Orahovica, a city in Virovitica-Podravina County in the northeastern country, and the municipality of Zdenci, where the river Vučica and water came to households near the coat.

Bosnia and Herzegovina

In Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, several cities and municipalities are readiness due to the spill of the river.

In the area of ​​Gradiška, due to the growth of the Sava River water level, more than seventy households, and the three bridges were damaged.

The difficult situation is in Prijedor, in which the state of emergency defense against floods was declared. During the past night, about 350 buildings, housing and auxiliary, said the city administration of Prijedor.

Firefighters have performed 12 evacuations, and two families are temporarily located in the « Prijedor » Hotel.

In Laktašima, the place near Banja Luka, an extraordinary situation was declared due to the flooding of Vrbas and the Bukovica River, and « about 100 houses is underwater », He said the mayor of Miroslav Bojic.

« The part of the population reported that it was flooded in ground floor parts, so they moved to several floors, » Bojic said.

In the village of Negraders there was Launded on the way to nearby Banja Luka, as well as the closure of the trnska bridge on that road direction.

Banja Lučani repeat: « Just to rain », while recalling the 2014 flooding. When part of the municipality was completely flooded, writes BUKA Portal.

In Zvornik, the city in the east of Republika Srpska on the coast of the Drina, there was a spill of that river, but the water level was declining on Friday.

The second, the maximum degree of readiness due to the river of Bosnia and its tributaries was declared in Modrica, The Mayor of Jovica Radulović told Republika Srpska Radio-Television (RTRS).

« The torrential rivers made the problem of households. The water entered the basement rooms, » Radulovic said.

In the Federation of BiH, the most difficult situation is in Sanski Most, where the water entered the cellar premises of the municipality. Hard condition is in the area of ​​Bihać and Zenica, as well as Brcko District.

‘I packed’

Žarka Radoja, BBC journalist

The phone rang on Thursday night. I was calling me Mom from Banja Luka, which, I thought, again wants to recount the handsonging grandchildren living in another country.

« It’s raining, they say on television that they won’t stop next days, I don’t know what to do, » she told me in a voice in which the restlessness was feeling. I realized she was scared.

In 2014, when great floods hit BiH and Serbia, part in which he lived for the first time was underwater. Vrbas pierced the embankments and poured on the suburbs of Banja Luka.

While I was trying to get the phone on the phone and parallel to the portal, called all the services in charge of emergencies and the police and the water hit the door with such a speed than to climb the roof.

A few hours later the helicopter will pick them up from the roof of the house that was underwater and removed for sure.

From then until today, there were many rainy days in BiH, but it was only once until that 27. Marta was worried about the possible floods.

« I packed the basic things in the bag, so I’ll see, I watch the news, » she told me Thursday night.

I tried to draw her thoughts talking about children and plans for recent travel, she persuaded to go to sleep with his brother or friend. She didn’t want to.

I called my sister and repeat Mom’s words: « I don’t know what to do. »

On Friday morning, he briefly reported, « I moved the most important things in the attic, locked up and left. »

« Vrbas is now on Kota 3.81, and 11 years ago he was eight meters, » she told me shortly and I realized that he was following the news.

She didn’t spend the night in our house.

Serbia

The largest spill from the coat has been recorded in western Serbia so far, where the Jadar River flooded the area around Loznica.

During Thursday, Jadar poured out on arable lands in the village Bradić, in the part where there is no defense against floods, and the water approached the locals of the locals, passed away Radio-Television of Serbia.

In Loznica, « there are no endangered houses for now, but we appeal to the population to be in a state of standby, » said the mayor of Dragana Lukić.

Sava reached the level of over four meters in Sabac on Friday, and Monday is expected to reach water level five meters, He said Mayor of Sabac Aleksandar Pajic.

« The city is ready to react if necessary, » Pajic added.

The river of the Đetinje downstream of Uzice was also spilled, and agricultural land was flooded on the course of the river between Sevojno and Požega, The Local Portal of Uzice Online.

On the Judra and the upper course of the Western Morava, the water levels will be in stagnation and smaller growth and will move around and something above warning levels, stated in a hydrological warning published by the Republic Hydrometeorological Institute (RHMZ).

At the next time, the water levels will be greater with overcoming the boundaries of extraordinary defense from the floods near Sabac during 30. Marta, and in Sremska Mitrovica 31. March and 1. April.

According to the forecast of the RHMZ, until the end of March and early April, a common occurrence of rain and local showers can be expected. Short-term time stabilization should follow 3. And 4. April.

Croatia

Slavonia is the most suitable region of Croatia, and the city of Orahovica is the most vulnerable.

« The large amount of rain fell, more than 75 liters per square meter.

« When we went out on the field at six o’clock this morning, the dam even supported. But now, unfortunately, water crosses the dam, which means there are more than nine meters of water there », said 28. Marta Deputy Virovitica-Podravska Župana Marijo Klement.

The situation is « serious » and in the municipality of Zdenz, where the water from the same river « enters the courtyards, » the mayor Tomislav Durmić announced.

« The rain still falls tirelessly, and the water level increases. The services are in the field, the bags are placed and waiting for additional quantities, » he added.

Until Sunday, a heavy rain is expected in Croatia, especially in the area of ​​Dinarides, They said from the state hydrometeorological institute.

Special attention should be paid to the « Cup with tributaries, lower part of the Una, and the middle and lower part of the Sava, because according to the current forecasts, precipitation will happen in their catchment areas, » they added.

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