Teams battle flood waters in Sarajevo

A second day of heavy floods in the surburbs of Sarajevo wrought more havoc on the Bosnian capital on Saturday, despite water levels decreasing.

The Zeljeznica and Tilava rivers in southern Sarajevo burst their banks and flooded hundreds of homes in the area.

Civil protection teams and local residents struggled to put up sand bag barriers.

On Friday, heavy rain caused severe flash flooding prompting evacuations, power outages and submerged roads.

Hundreds of homes in the Sarajevo suburbs, along the rivers Bosnia, Tilava and Zeljeznica, and in the southwest part of the country, around the town of Konjic, had to be evacuated under unrelenting heavy downpours.

Rain started late on Thursday and forecasts say it will continue to fall until Sunday, raising fears of a repeat of record flooding that affected about a third of the population in 2014.

It followed days of unseasonably warm weather with temperatures over 20 degrees Celsius.