Nebojša Stefanović

BELGRADE - The High Court in Belgrade has placed three people in 30-day custody on suspicion of spreading panic via social media networks during the recent state of emergency by posting false information about the number of fatalities caused by the floods.

Three arrested "for causing panic via Facebook"

BELGRADE -- The Belgrade police have arrested three persons for spreading false information on social networks about the number of flood causalities.

BELGRADE - The Belgrade police have arrested three persons for spreading false information on social networks about the number of persons killed in the floods that hit Serbia last week.

The suspects are charged with an attempt to cause panic and disorder, head of the Belgrade police Veselin Milic said at the City Assembly.

SREMSKA MITROVICA - Serbia's Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic said on Wednesday the police currently had 38 reports of missing persons related to the floods that hit country last week.

The investigations have resulted in many people finding their loved ones, he explained, adding that the number of victims had not increased so far.

Eight arrested in Galenika corruption case

BELGRADE -- Eight people were arrested on Sunday on suspicion of causing losses of EUR 75 losses to the pharmaceutical company Galenika.

Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanović confirmed this and added that "the public can expect the investigation to show where money from the public enterprise was flowing away."

BELGRADE - The Serbian government has lifted the state of emergency in the territory of the country, and Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic thanked all ministers for their efforts in previous days.

State of emergency lifted, 33 victims so far

BELGRADE -- The Serbian government on Friday decided to lift the country-wide state of emergency introduced on May 15.

The proposal came from the emergency HQ set up to deal with the flood crisis, and was announced earlier in the day by Interior Minister Nebojša Stefanović.

BELGRADE - European Commissioner for International Cooperation, Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Response Kristalina Georgieva delivered in Belgrade on Wednesday to the Serbian Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic the aid in the fight against floods.

Death toll reaches 20, new evacuations ordered

ŠABAC, OBRENOVAC -- Local authorities in the town of Šabac, in western Serbia, on Monday announced that two more people had lost their lives in the floods.

A hero fromTopola buried

Dejan Lazarevic (44) a fireman who lost his life saving lives of others was buried in Topola yesterday.

By his grave, all in tears there were his father Miroslav, mother Gorica, wife Dragana, son Nikola and daughter Nikolina.