2000 evacuated in BosniaBosnia used soldiers, police, volunteers and divers early Saturday to help evacuate people from areas flooded in the northeast of the country.
Officials said the rescuers used boats to help about 2,000 people flee their homes in the city of Bijeljina. To others they delivered food and drinking water as most suburbs had no electricity, water or phone lines.
Several Bosnian rivers burst their banks three days ago because of heavy rainfall.
The river Drina that divides Bosnia from Serbia and Montenegro has caused most of the damage, forcing authorities in all three countries to evacuate thousands of people.
Like other countries in western Europe, France continued on Saturday to suffer from unusually cold and snowy weather in the fall.
In the north, a portion of a roof at a French nuclear power plant in the town of Flamanville near the English Channel collapsed under the weight of snowfall, Electricite de France said.
The electric utility said nuclear waste stockpiles were not under threat, and there was no environmental impact caused.
Meanwhile, France's civil aviation authority asked airlines to scale back one in five flights from Paris' two main airports -- Charles de Gaulle and Orly -- for most of the day Saturday.