Heavy rain kept falling in northeastern Bosnia throughout the night prompting more rivers to burst their banks and cause enormous damage to residential buildings and agricultural land.
Some roads, such as the one connecting Kladanj and Zivinice, are blocked due to landslides.
Citizens of Janja, near Bijeljina, witnessed the Janja river ripping apart an old local bridge on Monday.
“The water pulled everything away. The old bridge cracked and later excavators removed the remains of the concrete to facilitate the flow of water,” residents said.
Meanwhile, locals in Djurdjevik, in the Zivinice municipality just south of Tuzla, captured the moment when when the Gostelja river swept away a prefabricated house on video.
According to the head of the Tuzla Canton Civil Protection Administration, Zoran Jovanovic, it was raining throughout the night and now is the time to proclaim a state of natural disaster across the entire canton.
The rivers Sapna and Hoca also spilt over in the Zvornik area and the drainage canals could not take the amount of water flowing out so more than 100 yards and 30 houses in the settlements of Karakaj, Celopek, Ulice, Donji Grbavci and Cer were flooded.
