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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 8 augusT 2017

Storms, heavy winds hit Balkans after blistering heat wave

tricity, as hail and winds swimming in the Siret river.
flooded dozens of houses, Emergency services
collapsed trees and dam- spokesman Adrian Rotaru
aged cars and crops and said that “these teens went
crops. into the river to cool off due
In Serbia, sudden heavy to the heat wave.... we do
rains hit a mountainous re- not recommend bathing in
gion in the west late Mon- unsupervised areas.”
day before spreading to Romanian authorities is-
other parts of the country. sued a flood warning for
On Sunday, two men were parts of western Romania
killed in separate incidents on Monday after heavy
in northern Italy when rain following a weeklong
strong winds toppled trees heat wave. Officials say at
which crushed them. In least two people died last
another incident, a hiker week.
slipped to her death from a The National Hydrology
muddy path. Institute issued a “yellow
A lightning strike killed a warning” for the Mures Riv-
man walking in a forest in a er in western Romania that
fourth incident Sunday. will last until Monday eve-
Meanwhile, officials in ning.
A view of the swallen Rienza river after a violent rain in the upper Pusteria Valley, in Brunico, North- neighboring Romania A statement said the heavy
ern Italy, Sunday, Aug. 6, 2017. Four people have died: two because of fallen trees, including a retrieved the bodies of rainfall could produce tor-
Belgian 41-year-old man, a hiker was killed by lightning and a tourist died as she slipped on a
wet trail. two teenage boys who rents and flooding along
(Enzo Quaratino/ANSA via AP) drowned while bathing in a the river.
river to cool off during the In Croatia’s Istria peninsula,
BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — high temperatures in the Slovenia’s STA news agen- heat wave. stormy winds late Sunday
A heavy storm with strong region. cy reported that the storms Officials in the northeast uprooted trees and dam-
winds, hail and rain has hit Temperatures dropped “caused havoc” across the county of Neamt said they aged roofs. Temporary
the Balkans and elsewhere significantly in some areas, country overnight Sunday pulled out the bodies of a traffic restrictions were im-
in Europe as the weather bringing relief after reach- to Monday. 15-year-old on Sunday and posed in some areas along
changed on Monday fol- ing more than 40 C (104 F) Thousands of households a 16-year-old on Monday the Adriatic coast late Sun-
lowing a week of record- last week. were left without elec- morning. They had been day and early Monday. q

2 members of Russian punk band Pussy Riot briefly detained

MOSCOW (AP) — Two ber Maria Alyokhina tweet- victed Sentsov, who comes The U.S. and the EU have and Russia’s ruling elite. An
members of the Russian ed that she and Olga Bor- from the Crimean Peninsula criticized his conviction and impromptu “punk prayer”
feminist punk band Pussy isova were taken to a po- that Russia annexed from called for his release, and at Moscow’s Cathedral of
Riot were briefly detained lice station following their Ukraine in 2014, of con- numerous cultural figures Christ the Savior that de-
Monday after rallying for detention earlier in the day spiracy to commit terror at- in Russia and abroad have rided the ties between the
the release of a Ukrainian and faced a court hearing tacks and sentenced him urged the Russian govern- Russian Orthodox Church
filmmaker outside his Sibe- over charges of holding an to 20 years in prison. ment to free him. and the Kremlin got them
rian prison. unauthorized rally. Sentsov, who made two Pussy Riot is a loose collec- into trouble in 2012. Three
During Sunday’s protest in Borisova later said on Face- short movies and the 2012 tive and most of its mem- band members were con-
Yakutsk where Oleg Sentsov book that she and Alyokh- feature film “Gamer,” de- bers perform anonymously. victed of “hooliganism mo-
is serving his sentence, the ina were released after a nied the charges, which The balaclava-clad wom- tivated by religious hatred”
band members unfurled a judge found flaws in the he and his supporters de- en rose to prominence for the stunt. Alyokhina and
banner on a nearby bridge case. It was unclear if the nounced as political pun- with their daring outdoor another member, Nade-
that read “Free Sentsov!” police would refile charges. ishment for his opposition to performances critical of zhda Tolokonnikova, spent
Longtime Pussy Riot mem- A Russian military court con- Crimea’s annexation. President Vladimir Putin nearly two years in prison.q