AP Archive | Residents, workers assess damage from flooding in Bosnia-Herzegovina @APArchive | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Donja Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 4 October 2024
1. Wide of flooded area
2. Various of flood damage and rescue team
3. Tracking of helicopter
4. Various of debris in river
5. Wide of rescue team at flood site
6. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amir Hamzic, local resident:
"The picture speaks a thousand words. It is a disaster. This has not happened here. I am 66 years old, for the past 50 years I cannot remember that anything like this happened. Unfortunately, many people lost their lives, and that is the biggest tragedy. The house, road, garden can be fixed but human life no. You have only one life, and God bless these people.”
7. Wide of rescue services around houses
8. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amir Hamzic, local resident:
"Some of my colleagues are from here, I have heard they are missing. I wish they were alive, I wish they were found, but as you can see, you can’t even see the foundation of those destroyed houses. I wish I was not right and that they are found alive, but they say that lots of them are missing.”
9. Various of flooded area
10. Wide of closed main road between Sarajevo and Mostar, stones and branches on road
STORYLINE:
A severe rainstorm struck Bosnia overnight Friday, killing at least 14 people and flooding several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country.
Rescue services in the south of the country reported several people missing and called on volunteers and the army to assist as roads were closed and houses left without electricity.
Rescue services in the towns of Jablanica and Kiseljak said the power was off overnight and mobile phone service was down.
The Jablanica fire station said that the town was completely inaccessible because roads and trainlines were closed.
This summer, the Balkans were also hit by long-lasting record temperatures, causing a drought.
Scientists said the dried-out land has hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
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(4 Oct 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Donja Jablanica, Bosnia and Herzegovina - 4 October 2024
1. Wide of flooded area
2. Various of flood damage and rescue team
3. Tracking of helicopter
4. Various of debris in river
5. Wide of rescue team at flood site
6. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amir Hamzic, local resident:
"The picture speaks a thousand words. It is a disaster. This has not happened here. I am 66 years old, for the past 50 years I cannot remember that anything like this happened. Unfortunately, many people lost their lives, and that is the biggest tragedy. The house, road, garden can be fixed but human life no. You have only one life, and God bless these people.”
7. Wide of rescue services around houses
8. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Amir Hamzic, local resident:
"Some of my colleagues are from here, I have heard they are missing. I wish they were alive, I wish they were found, but as you can see, you can’t even see the foundation of those destroyed houses. I wish I was not right and that they are found alive, but they say that lots of them are missing.”
9. Various of flooded area
10. Wide of closed main road between Sarajevo and Mostar, stones and branches on road
STORYLINE:
A severe rainstorm struck Bosnia overnight Friday, killing at least 14 people and flooding several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country.
Rescue services in the south of the country reported several people missing and called on volunteers and the army to assist as roads were closed and houses left without electricity.
Rescue services in the towns of Jablanica and Kiseljak said the power was off overnight and mobile phone service was down.
The Jablanica fire station said that the town was completely inaccessible because roads and trainlines were closed.
This summer, the Balkans were also hit by long-lasting record temperatures, causing a drought.
Scientists said the dried-out land has hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
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