Snowstorm in Bosnia causes traffic chaos, leaves thousands of homes without power

(24 Dec 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bihac area, road towards border with Croatia - 24 December 2024
1. Line of cars and buses stopped in a snow storm on the road
2. Bus jammed in the snow, big truck trying to pull it out
3. Truck pulling out bus from the snow

ASSOCIATED PRESS
Zenica, Bosnia - 24 December 2024
4. City buildings in the dark, because of dark clouds of snow
5. Cars in the snow
6. Woman walking in the snow
7. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Senada Memic, resident of Zenica:
"Well, years before , they used to clean up snow, but not now, this is horrific."
8. Woman walking around collapsed tree
9. Inside road sweeper truck
10. Driver of road sweeper
11. Snow clean up
12. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Bojan Jeftic, Zenica communal services:
"The forecast says that snow will be falling until Thursday, so we can expect, actually it's very probable, that we will have to declare a state of emergency."
13. Truck clean up
14. SOUNDBITE (Bosnian) Mirsad Jasarevic, resident of Zenica:
"I'm actually glad it's falling, especially because of Christmas, we did not have snow for Christmas for 17 years here, and now is the time for wonderful white Christmas.
14. Zenica street scene


STORYLINE:
Tens of thousands of homes in Bosnia were without electricity on Tuesday after more heavy snow and wind that also brought traffic chaos in neighboring Croatia and Serbia.

Parts of Bosnia faced a total halt of railway traffic because of the snow.

Bosnia's state power company described the situation as “extremely hard” in some areas of the country.

The weight of heavy snow brought down distribution lines which are hard to access due to snow drifts, the company said in a statement.

Throughout the Balkans, authorities issued travel warnings as snow drifts closed some major routes, including sections of motorways in Croatia.

Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia banned the movement of heavy vehicles and imposed limited traffic levels on affected roads.

AP Video shot by Almir Alic



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