Snow drifting in Serbia 3 people died

Three died in Serbia and two are missing due to combined wave of snow and plunging temperature according to media reported Monday.

Difficulties in transportation was experienced in the mountain regions because of drifting snows over three meters high. In several places snow interrupted electrical supplies in villages.

Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia recorded minus 9 degrees Celsius while in the city of Kragujevac, the coldest urban center in the country, temperatures plunged to minus 12 degrees Celsius and bus operators struggled with frozen fuel lines.

The Serbian Army had to help evacuate people surrounding the fourteen municipalities declared under the state of emergency.

Approximately 250 km southwest of Belgrade over 50 villagers remained hard to find because of snow drifts that reaches three meters high. More or less 1,000 residents in Ljubovija near the Bosnian border were remained isolated.

Head of the emergency services for the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Pedrag Maric, said that in the past two weeks, about 50 people have been rescued from the drifting snow. He called a warning to all inhabitants in the rural villages to maintain supplies and always stay indoors. — CHAZ