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Locals on a boat in a flooded street in Pozega, Serbia. Photograph: Dragan Karadarevic/EPARecord flooding in the Balkans has left least 20 people dead in Serbia and Bosnia and is forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes.
Meteorologists say the flooding is the worst since records began 120 years ago and is due to three months' worth of rain falling on the region in three days. Goran Mihajlovic from Serbia's Weather Centre said such rainfall happens once in 100 years.
In the eastern Bosnian town of Bijeljina, some 10,000 people were being evacuated on Saturday after the rain-swollen river Sava surged through flood defences.
Officials in Bosnia said 12 people had died and more bodies could emerge as the water recedes from dozens of cities flooded in the past three days.
In some places, the water had reached the second floor of people's homes and they had to be rescued by helicopter from their roofs.
In Serbia, where there were eight deaths, emergency crews and soldiers were using boats and helicopters to rescue thousands trapped in the town of Obrenovac, near Belgrade. The overflowing waters there are threatening Serbia's biggest power plant.
The Serbian prime minister, Aleksandar Vucic, told a press conference that a new flood wave on the Sava would hit on Sunday evening.
Thousands of volunteers have responded to the government's appeal to help build up flood defences around the towns along the Sava.
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