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Floods, landslides leave many Bosnians homeless

By Aida Cerkez
Published May 20, 2014 5:28pm ET
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Floods, landslides leave many Bosnians homeless
Ramiz Skopljak, 65, walks where his house once stood and was swept by the river last week in the village of Topcic Polje, near the Bosnian town of Zenica, 90 kilometers north of Sarajevo, on Monday May 19, 2014. At least 35 people have died in Serbia and Bosnia in the five days of flooding caused by unprecedented torrential rain, laying waste to entire towns and villages and sending tens of thousands of people out of their homes, authorities said. (AP Photo/Sulejman Omerbasic) | Sulejman Omerbasic

TOPCIC POLJE, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — It took only a few minutes for a roaring landslide to leave Ramiz Skopljak homeless for the second time in his life.

The first time he had been 47, and though his house was a ruin, the Bosnian war at least left him his land in Topcic Polje, central Bosnia, on which to start anew.

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