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BELGRADE - Five people have died, one of them a rescue worker, head of the Interior Ministry department for emergencies Predrag Maric has said.

One person from Varvarin, a town on the banks of the Great Morava, cental Serbia, is missing, he said at a meeting of the national headquarters for emergencies.

Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina have reported a death toll of at least 20 in the worst floods in the region in more than a century.

Serbia's Interior Ministry confirmed there had been at least 15 deaths in Serbia and another five in neighboring Bosnia-Herzegovina but unconfirmed reports put the numbers even higher, at over 30.

BELGRADE - The intense fight to save human lives in the floods in Serbia continues on Saturday, and the most critical situation still remains in the Belgrade municipality of Obrenovac which is completely flooded.

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.

SERBIA IS FACING THE BIGGEST NATURAL DISASTER IN PAST 120 YEARS

Serbia is going through the worst floods ever recorded. The situation is much harder than can be imagined! Thousands of people are being evacuated, many of them are still waiting to be rescued.

Montenegro dispatches troops to help Serbian flood victims

PODGORICA -- The Armed Forces of the Republic of Montenegro sent their troops to provide assistance to the flood-hit areas in Serbia.

This was announced on Saturday by the Montenegrin Defense Ministry.

BELGRADE – Republika Srpska President Milorad Dodik said in Belgrade on Saturday that the bodies of six flood victims were found in the morning in Doboj, Republika Srpska, a town on the Bosna river that is the hardest-hit by the floods in the Serb entity in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The unusually wet and cool weather will continue until July, says the TV-MET meteorological head Petar Yankov, quoted by Bulgarian-language media. 

According to him, the weather will return to normal in July and in August it will be typically for the month hot and dry. 

Town of Šabac safe, flood victims in Obrenovac

BELGRADE, ŠABAC -- The bodies of those who perished in the flood in Obrenovac are being recovered on Saturday, MUP Emergency Sector chief Predrag Marić has said.

But he told a news conference in Belgrade that authorities would not reveal the number of victims "until flood waters have subsided."

At least nine more victims of the severe floods that have struck Bosnia this week were reported at the weekend. Police said six bodies had been recovered in Doboj, northern Bosnia, as flood waters receded. Three other deaths were reported in Maglaj and Samac.