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Extremely heavy rain that fell on the night of November 4 caused a blackout on the morning of November 5 in Sarajevo and other parts of Bosnia & Herzegovina.
Some parts of the Bosnian capital have been closed to traffic due to the overflow of the Miljacka and Zeljeznica rivers, and schools in Sarajevo have been closed. A plant where oxygen is charged for COVID-19 patients was submerged.
During the day, the rain stopped falling, so the electricity supply stabilised, but the citizens of Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia, such as Konjic, are still afraid that the rivers could break their banks if the rain continues to fall.
Dozens of people have been evacuated from retirement homes, other institutions and private houses in the worst hit parts of the city.
The blackout in Sarajevo and other cities in Bosnia also caused communication problems, with landline and mobile phones ceasing to work and internet access being disabled too.
The situation has brought back memories of 2014 when the worst floods since records began engulfed large parts of Bosnia as well as Serbia and Croatia, resulting in the deaths of over at least 77 people, 57 of them in Serbia. In Bosnia, almost 40% of the population, over 1.5m people, were left without electricity and running water until infrastructure was repaired.
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