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Macedonia raises storm death toll to 22; toddler missing

Macedonia raises storm death toll to 22; toddler missing | iNFOnews.ca
Muddy clothes, taken out of a flooded house, hang on a fence to dry after a storm, in the village of Stajkovci, just east of Skopje, Macedonia, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Macedonia's government declared a state of emergency Sunday in parts of the capital hit by torrential rain and floods that left at least 21 people dead, six missing and dozens injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

SKOPJE, Macedonia – Macedonian authorities on Tuesday raised the death toll from a heavy storm that hit the capital Skopje over the weekend to 22, and said a 16-month-old girl remains missing.

Police spokeswoman Natalija Spirova Kordikj said the drowned body of the last victim, a 12-year-old boy, was found late Monday in a bus stop.

The head of Skopje’s Red Cross, Suzana Tuneva, said food, water and clothes were being distributed to about 10,000 people in the worst-affected Skopje districts of Stajkovci, Indzikovo, Ekonomija and Aracinovo. About 3,500 homes have been flooded and many schools have been turned into emergency shelters for flood victims.

A two-week state of emergency has been declared in the afflicted northern parts of Skopje.

On Tuesday, Macedonian President Gjorge Ivanov decided to donate his salary for this month — 78,000 denars (1,300 euros; $1,400) — to people hit by the storm.

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