At least 20 people died in the floods that affected parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is feared that the number of victims is higher because rescuers have yet to make their way to many places.
17 people died in Jablanica, and three in Fojnica.
N1 reports that according to confirmed information, from 20 to 40 people are missing.
Darko Juka, the spokesperson of the Government of Herzegovina-Neretva County, announced earlier that the most critical situation is in the area of Donja Jablanica, where the water has gone over the roofs of houses in some villages, reports Radio Free Europe.
"The woman who was buried in the house lost her baby. She is fine, but she lost the baby," reported the N1 reporter from Jablanica.
Heavy rainfall caused landslides and landslides in Bosnia and Herzegovina during the night from Thursday to Friday, and the area of the municipality of Jablanica was the hardest hit, along with the municipalities of Konjic, Kiseljak, Fojnica and Kreševo.
Floods destroy bridges, carry away cars and lead to landslides, and a large number of people are injured and missing.
At an extraordinary session on October 4, the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina unanimously made a decision to engage all resources of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina. Engineering units, human rescue units and a helicopter of the Armed Forces of BiH were urgently engaged, with the aim of providing urgent assistance to civil authorities in responding to a natural disaster.
Helicopters of the mission of the military forces of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina (EUFOR) carry out emergency transport of the seriously injured from Jablanica.
Damir Šabanović, the mayor of Jablanica, said that a state of natural disaster will be declared in that city and in the entire Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
"It's chaos. We have human victims, we don't know how many. The material damage is enormous," Šabanović told RSE.
The Railways of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina said that the train service between Sarajevo and Capljina was canceled due to the damaged track, which in some parts was "hanging" in the air, which led to the interruption of the main road and railway connection between the north and the south of the country.
Lamija Duranović, director of the "Dr. Safet Mujić" Cantonal Hospital in Mostar, said that patients are constantly arriving and that, among others, a ten-year-old child was admitted who was brought by an EUFOR helicopter, and whose life is not in danger.
"The pregnant woman, whose child died in her womb, was evacuated and operated on. Her life is in danger," Duranović said, adding that the husband of the pregnant woman was also injured, but is out of danger.
"Due to large floods and landslides, a large number of the population is at risk, with information that there are victims as well as a large number of injured and missing persons," the Federal Administration of Civil Protection (FUCZ) announced earlier, reports N1.
"Traffic, telephone and internet connections are interrupted. Starting from Mostar, in Drežnica, a large torrent of Drežanka destroyed a couple of bridges, swept away about 20 cars, and for now we have no information about human casualties in that area. Due to the landslide, the M-17 road towards Donja Jablanica is impassable," the report stated, while information came from the field that two people had died.
"The most difficult situation, according to information from the field, is in Jablanica and the surrounding areas (Buturović Polje, Ostrožac, Čelebići) where there were a large number of landslides on houses, landslides on roads and flooding of houses located by the lake," Civilna reported. protection.
"Unfortunately, according to the first information, we also have human victims. We also asked for the help of the Armed Forces of Bosnia and Herzegovina to send a helicopter to save the life of a child in Jablanica," said Marija Buhač, President of the Government of Herzegovina-Neretva Canton (HNK), reports Radio Slobodna. Europe (RSE).
Darko Juka, the spokesman for the Government of HNK, said that the road is completely interrupted, and telephone communication is partially interrupted in the area of Jablanica and Konjic. He specified that there had been serious landslides, landslides and overflowing rivers and that the roads from Jablanica to the north and the town of Prozor-Rama had collapsed.
The Jablanica Fire Department told RFE/RL that teams are on the ground and that the situation is critical, while the Railways of the Federation of BiH said that train services between Sarajevo and Čapljina have been cancelled.
The water also washed away some bridges in the area of the city of Mostar, reports RSE.
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