Emergency crews and volunteers struggled to keep embankments and sand barriers from giving way yesterday amid record flooding along the Danube and its tributaries in northern Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans.

EMERGENCY crews and volunteers yesterday struggled to keep embankments and sand barriers from giving way amid record flooding along the Danube and its tributaries in northern Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans.

Emergency crews and volunteers today struggled to keep embankments and sand barriers from giving way amid record flooding along the Danube and its tributaries in northern Serbia and elsewhere in the Balkans.

The rising Danube flooded hundreds of homes in Serbia and Bulgaria today and threatened production at one of the Balkan’s biggest power plants.