RS president: Floods claim six lives in town of Doboj

RS president: Floods claim six lives in town of Doboj

BELGRADE -- RS President Milorad Dodik said in Belgrade on Saturday that the bodies of six flood victims were found earlier in the morning in Doboj.

Doboj is a town in the Serb entity of Bosnia-Herzegovina (RS) on the Bosna River that is the hardest-hit by the floods.

Dodik said that his meeting with Prime Minister Aleksandar Vučić was held to establish coordination and jointly deal with the problems caused by the floods in Serbia and the RS.

At a joint press conference after the meeting, Dodik thanked Vučić for the understanding shown and assistance provided to the RS in this difficult situation.

For the second consecutive day, the RS has been supplying 50 MW of electricity to Serbia to help keep its electric power system running, despite the fact that it, too, is experiencing problems with electric power supplies, he said.

He warned that both the RS and Serbia are to face a difficult period of recovering from the damage caused by the floods and clearing the ground.

Dodik said that he saw oil spills, barrels and dead cattle during Friday's visit to Doboj, where water rose to six meters in some places.

The difficult consequences will have to be remedied and it will be another blow to the economies of Serbia and the RS, which are already going through a crisis, Dodik said.

Speaking about the problems caused by the floods in the Serb entity, Dodik said that the water that is now flowing into the Sava River from the Vrbas, Bosna and Drina rivers is making the situation in the Semberija and Lijevče Polje regions even worse, with the towns of Brčko, Šamac and Bijeljina the hardest-hit.

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