Evacuation under way in Meža Valley
Mežica/Črna na Koroškem, 6 August - An evacuation started late Saturday night of the Meža Valley due to what local media report is a major looming landslide upstream of Črna na Koroškem, one of the towns worst hit by massive flooding that Slovenia has been experiencing since Friday.
Prevalje
The Meža River sweeps away a house in Prevalje.
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Mežica
Flooding in Mežica on 5 August.
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The evacuation was first announced by the Mežica municipality late on Saturday and Večer newspaper reports that a helicopter evacuation was due to start this morning in an attempt to bring about 100 people who had previously been evacuated to a local centre for disabled persons to safety.
Večer says the helicopter evacuation effort is currently hampered by bad visibility and fog.
It took until yesterday for the army to reach Črna, located in a narrow valley close to the border with Austria, which had been cut off by landslides and destroyed bridges.