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The flashy floating restaurants and nightclubs lining the Danube are one of the main tourists attractions in the Serbian capital, by night blasting loud turbo folk music, a mixture of traditional Balkan folk and contemporary electronic beats.
Officials were hoping that lowered water levels in the Danube from a drought last year would help Serbia avoid flooding like that that has hit Bulgaria and Greece.
Nikola Marjanovic, a Serbian water supply system official, said there is no need for panic but the situation must be carefully monitored. “At this moment we don’t know what will happen,” he said.
Some 3,300 people remain stranded by deep snow that hit remote areas of southern Serbia and they can only be reached by helicopters, said Serbian emergency official Predrag Maric.
In Romania, melting snow and ice claimed the life of a 42-year-old man who was killed after an icicle fell on his head in front of the shop where he worked in the eastern city of Barlad.
In Montenegro, the US military responded to a request from the government by dispatching two Black Hawk helicopters to evacuate people from snowbound regions of the small Balkan country, the US Embassy said.
