In pictures: Flooding sweeps Balkans

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Boat carrying rescued pigs during heavy floods in Vojskova, Bosnia. 19 May 2014Image source, Reuters
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Floods have affected more than a million Bosnians - a quarter of the population - the government says. Here, villagers in Vojskova rescue pigs from the water.

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In neighbouring Serbia, authorities have ordered the evacuation of Obrenovac where a river surge threatens the country's largest power plant. Emergency supplies are being brought in.

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At least 35 people have died in five days of floods and the toll is expected to rise. Thousands have fled their homes.

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Volunteers and police formed a human chain to help reinforce the banks of the swollen River Sava, west of Belgrade.

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Torrential rain has triggered hundreds of landslides, like here in the Bosnian village of Topcic Polje.

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The floods are the worst in the region since records began, 120 years ago.