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BELGRADE - Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic talked in Belgrade on Thursday with the Ambassador of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Juma Rashid Saif Zayed Al Dhaheri, about the consequences of the recent severe floods and the UAE's aid worth EUR 1.3 million.

Ankara’s Batıkent subway station was flooded when heavy rain hit the city on June 5.

Photos immediately went viral, showing passengers trying to avoid the rain along with some of them using umbrellas underground.

BELGRADE - The flood damage to the first and second category roads in Serbia has been estimated at EUR 40 million, Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure Zorana Mihajlovic said on Thursday, noting that there are still no complete data on the damage inflicted to local roads.

MALI ZVORNIK - Serbian Deputy Prime Minister Zorana Mihajlovic stated on Wednesday that the reconstruction work in the flood-affected areas will be in the competence of the newly-formed office for recovery and aid for the flooded areas, which has received all damage assessment documentation collected to date.

40 teams to evaluate flood damage

BELGRADE -- 40 teams comprising 200 local and international experts will be established in Serbia to evaluate the damage caused by the floods.

This was agreed on Tuesday by representatives of relevant institutions and the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure.

BELGRADE - Forty teams comprising 200 local and international experts will be established in Serbia to evaluate the damage caused by the floods, representatives of relevant institutions and the Ministry of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure agreed at a meeting on Tuesday.

The cause of the flooding that created the surreal images in Istanbul was “a small tsunami,” the Üsküdar Municipality’s Press Advisory argued in a statement on June 3.

Civil protection authorities in northern and eastern parts of the country on Tuesday issued a series of directives to residents and visitors of a precautionary nature following forecasts of strong showers and storms on Wednesday.

The police chief in Bosnia's Federation entity, Dragan Lukac, said an investigation would be launched to determine whether money set aside for preventing flood damage had been spent illegally.

“One must not stay deaf or mute,” he said on Monday. “Someone has to be held responsible and if we determine that a crime occurred, together with the prosecutors we will file criminal charges.”

Austria to help Serbia and Bosnia with EUR 1mn

VIENNA -- Austrian Foreign Minister Sebastian Kurz has announced that the Austrian government has decided to give Serbia and Bosnia-Herzegovina EUR 500,000 each.

The money will be used to repair the damage caused by the recent severe floods.