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Death toll in Balkan floods reach 37; rising flood threatens power plants

(Reuters) – Soldiers, police and villagers battled to protect power plants in Serbia from rising flood waters on Sunday as the death toll from the Balkan region’s worst rainfall in more than a century reached 37. Twelve bodies were recovered from the worst-hit Serbian town of Obrenovac, 30 km (18 miles) southwest of the capital, Belgrade, but the number was likely to rise as waters receded. “The situation is catastrophic,” Prime Minister Aleksandar Vucic told […]