BELGRADE, June 23 (Xinhua) -- Fifteen municipalities in Serbia on Tuesday declared the state of emergency after local rivers raised due to rainfalls, flooding hundreds of households and damaging infrastructure.
Most endangered was the southwestern municipality of Ivanjica, where hundreds of houses ended up under water, together with companies, roads and bridges.
In Ljubovija, 700 houses are under water, and 71 people were evacuated. The whole town was left without tap water and with unreliable electricity supply.
The flood cut off roads in the Lucani municipality and entered dozens of homes and other buildings in the world-famous village of Guca, the venue of the annual festival of brass music.
In municipalities of Lucan and Arilje, which saw 50-100 liters of rainfall per square meter in the past 48 hours, 141 people were evacuated.
After a crisis response meeting, Prime Minister Ana Brnabic said that Serbia saw extreme rainfall, which in some places reached even 210 liters per square meter. She announced that the army is assisting police units and Red Cross to eliminate the danger of flooding. Enditem
