Bosnia and Herzegovina will hold
local elections on Oct. 20 in the municipalities most severely
affected by floods in recent days, and in which local voting
held in the Balkan country on Oct. 6 had been postponed. The
electoral commission's decision concerns the municipalities of
Jablanica, Fojnica, Kiseljak, Konjic and Kresevo, all located in
the Muslim-Croat Federation, one of the two entities that make
up Bosnia and Herzegovina. As rescue operations and restoration
of main services and road and rail links continue, the death
toll has been updated to 23, with three more people still
missing. Material damage was extensive, with dozens of houses
and buildings destroyed, bridges knocked down by landslides and
mudslides, and productive activities swept away by high water,
which submerged large areas of cultivated fields.
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