Two dead after powerful storm sweeps through western Balkans

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Heavy midweek rains — and even egg-sized hailstones — lashed the western Balkans overnight, leading to two deaths in Montenegro and damaged infrastructure across the region.

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00:00Europe's Balkan countries have been battered by heavy mid-week rains, thunderstorms, falling

00:08temperatures and even hail.

00:11At least two people have died in Montenegro, while egg-sized hailstones damaged infrastructure

00:16in Slovenia.

00:18Officials say almost 300 firefighters removed fallen trees and repaired roofs in Croatia's

00:24east.

00:25We were in communication, which is important to say, that the government of the Republic

00:32of Croatia will unfortunately, who knows which way, in Slavonia, you see, you are witnesses

00:38yourself, that this is almost not happening to us from month to month, when the summer

00:43periods are, as well as last year.

00:45Here we are in Bošnjac, when you look at the roofs and houses, it is more associated

00:50with some kind of war period.

00:54Storm-wrecked beaches ripped out trees and inundated streets across the region.

01:00Experts warn human-induced climate change has caused the wild weather swings, with the

01:06worst yet to come.

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