Lake created by landslide floods in Bosnia, closes highway
Feb 25, 2017 | 6:15 AM
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SARAJEVO, Bosnia — Flooding from a new lake created by a landslide in central Bosnia has shut down one of the country’s main highways.
Earlier this week, a major landslide from huge piles of mine waste from an open pit coal mine had blocked a river near the central town of Kakanj, creating the lake.
The lake then overflowed Saturday morning following heavy rain overnight. That forced the closure of a busy highway connecting the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo with the central town of Zenica.
Fahrudin Solak, a Civil Protection official, said emergency crews have redirected drivers to alternative roads and were struggling to defuse the lake’s flooding threat by channeling water into drainage ducts.
