Flash floods and landslides in central Bosnia-Herzegovina have killed at least 18 people, isolated towns and villages and reported homes in some places nearly submerged.
Some of the worst scenes occurred in the area around Jablanica, a town on the main route between the city of Mostar and the capital Sarajevo, about 70 kilometers (40 miles) northeast.
Several other people were reported missing and a state of emergency was declared.
Development Minister Vojin Mijatovic said the country had witnessed a terrible disaster and called for calm.
ReutersSearch and rescue work continues as more than a dozen people remain missing.
On Sunday, two more bodies were found in the village of Donja Jablanica.
Heavy rain appears to have caused landslides from a quarry above the village, burying many houses, with water levels rising to the roofs of some buildings.
Rescuers are using their hands to remove mud from flooded houses. Teams from Serbia, Croatia and North Macedonia arrived to assist, and EU countries also sent help.
On Saturday, Herzegovina-Neretva Canton officials said 13 deaths had been confirmed in the region, instead of 16 as previously reported.
In the town of Fojnica, three more deaths were confirmed.
Rivers burst their banks after a storm last night and aerial photos showed scores of flooded towns and villages.
Roads, bridges and railway tracks were washed away or blocked by debris, while landslides left homes buried in rocks and dirt as high as the upper floors.
The main M-17 line running along the Neretva River was covered in rubble near Jablanica and a 17km stretch of railway was badly damaged between Ostrozac and nearby Grabovica in the west. A 200m section of railway track was suspended by a landslide near the river south of Jablanica.
Local authorities in Herzegovina-Neretva Canton warn motorists to avoid dangerous roads around Jablanica.
Further east along the Neretva River, a homeowner told Bosnian media that water entered the house at 03:30 on Friday and they barely saved their son before fleeing to neighbors and watching his house collapsed.
Meanwhile, 20 kilometers west of the capital, around Kiseljak, a floodwater flooded streets, leaving cars submerged.
ReutersFlooding is not limited to Bosnia. In neighboring Montenegro, roads were washed away, leaving the village of Komarnica isolated.
Water levels also rose in several rivers in Croatia and authorities in Zagreb said there was a risk of some areas in the city of Karlovac being flooded near the Kupa river.
Much of Central Europe was hit by floods last month, with the worst devastation in Poland, the Czech Republic and Romania.
Scientists from the World Weather Attribution (WWA) group said the four-day period was the rainiest ever recorded in the region. They said the flooding has become much worse due to climate change.
Europe is the fastest warming continent. According to the Copernicus climate agency, the average of the past five years has been about 2.3 degrees Celsius warmer than the second half of the 19th Century.
