(4 Dec 2010)
1. Various aerials of flooded suburbs in Bijeljina
2. Mid of a truck driving through water towards the camera
3. Wide of Bijeljina hotel flooded
4. Mid of cars flooded in water in front of the hotel
5. Wide of water running down a street in front of “Motel Peric”
6. Wide of a flooded gas station
7. Wide of a large body of water with a building in the far background
8. Mid of water flooding around fuel bowsers
9. Wide of a large body of water that surrounds buildings and a church in the background
10. Mid of the flooded church and other buildings
11. Mid of another flooded building
12. Mid of two men watching the water
13. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Muhamed Hamzic, Bijeljina resident:
“Look at this. You can see that this is a total catastrophe. The entire building, all buildings, not just this one, we have here a building with cattle food and this workshop, it’s all 180 centimetres (six feet) under water. There is nothing more to say, it can all be seen.”
14. Wide of flooded neighbourhood
15. Mid of a fast running stream of water
16. Wide of more flooded buildings
17. Pan left of three people rowing a small wooden boat past houses
18. Wide of three people rowing another boat through the flooded neighbourhood
19. Wide of a flooded car and more buildings
20. Mid of men standing looking at the flooding
21. Wide of the flooded neighbourhood
22. SOUNDBITE: (Bosnian) Slavko Tikvesa, Bijeljina resident:
“The house is some 30 metres (98 feet) away and we can’t get to it. My wife and children were upstairs during the first flood and I spent the night here on the street.”
23. Wide of flooded neighbourhood
24. Mid of rescuers standing next to the water talking
25. Mid of rescuers getting into a rubber boat, another rescuer in the foreground is talking on a walkie talkie
26. Wide of flooded streets and houses
27. Mid and pan left of rescuers helping a family out of a rubber boat
28. Wide of two men rowing a wooden boat through the flooded neighbourhood
STORYLINE
Authorities in the northeast of Bosnia say they have called in the army, police, volunteers and even divers to help evacuate people from areas flooded on Friday night and Saturday morning.
Rescuers have evacuated about two thousand people from their homes in the city using rubber boats, officials said on Saturday.
They are also delivering food and drinking water as most suburbs have no electricity, water or phone lines.
Bijeljina resident Muhamed Hamzic said the flooding was a “total catastrophe”.
“It’s all 180 centimetres (six feet) under water. There is nothing more to say, it can all be seen,” he said.
Another resident Slavko Tikvesa said he’d been separated from his family by the floodwaters.
“The house is some 30 metres (98 feet) away and we can’t get to it. My wife and children were upstairs during the first flood and I spent the night here on the street,” he said.
Several Bosnian rivers burst their banks three days ago after heavy rainfall.
The river Drina that divides Bosnia from Serbia and Montenegro has caused most of the damage, forcing authorities in all three countries to evacuate thousands of people.
The water had started to subside on Friday but came back on Saturday in the northern part of the Drina valley.
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Post time: Jun-22-2017