Record flooding in the Balkans has left least 20 people dead in Serbia and Bosnia and is forcing tens of thousands to flee their homes, authorities said.

Nato peacekeepers today detained a former bodyguard of Radovan Karadzic, one of the UN war crimes tribunal’s most-wanted fugitives, the force said.

Forensics experts unearthed the bodies of 51 Bosnian Muslims today from a mass grave believed to contain the remains of up to 300 people killed during the 1992-95 war.

Nato led troops today searched a house used during during the Bosnian war by the most wanted war crimes suspect Radovan Karadzic in the eastern town of Pale, retrieving documents that may provide clues to his whereabouts, officials said.

A Yugoslav weapons dealer has exported military equipment to Iraq, and Serb experts are helping Saddam Hussein defend air space against US attacks, it was claimed today.