(18 Apr 2006)
Slanotran
1. Road sign reading "road closed due to flooding"
Vidin
2. Castle along River Danube
3. People watching river
4. Children watching river
Slanotran
4. Swollen river
5. Soldiers walking on grass along side of river
6. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Damyn Nikolov, volunteer:
"We are working 24 hours shifts to help in case of danger, walking up and down."
7. Swollen water and trees
8. Water metre
9. Nikolov with two other volunteers and a dog
10. SOUNDBITE: (Bulgarian) Peter Atanasov, Deputy Chairman of Commission of Emergency of District:
"We have full support from the state, the army and the population."
Vidin
11. Various of people filling sandbags
12. Truck offloading sand
13. Various of trucks, and railways, trains in water in Customs-free Zone at Romanian/Bulgarian border
14. Customs building in water
15. Wide of Danube
STORYLINE:
The Danube River flowed at near-record levels in Bulgaria on Tuesday threatening to flood the houses of thousands of residents.
In Bulgaria''s northwestern port city of Vidin roads were closed and residents built flood defence barriers.
In Slanotran, the Danube river was clearly swollen, Damyn Nikolov a volunteer said "we are working 24 hours shifts to help in case of danger."
Peter Atanasov, Deputy Chairman of Commission of Emergency said they had received "full support" from the state.
Spring melting of snow together with heavy rains has led to floods throughout south eastern Europe in the past few weeks.
The Danube was receding Tuesday in Serbia where after having caused extensive damage to homes and farmland.
Keyword-severe weather - floods

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