Before and after: Record rainfall floods the Balkans

May 22, 2014 4:07PM ET

Satellite images reveal the devastating impact of floods in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia, where 51 people have died

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Bosnia and Herzegovina
Serbia
Croatia

Following 10 days of record-setting rainfall, Balkans nations are facing their worst flooding in a century with at least 51 people killed across Bosnia-Herzegovina and Serbia.

Witnesses and victims in Bosnia, where floodwaters have reportedly affected more than a quarter of the population, have compared the resulting destruction to that of the country’s 1992 -1995 war.

Serbia has been devastated as well. Receding waters in some of the country’s worst hit areas reveal fallen trees, homes toppled or submerged in mud and villages strewn with the rotting corpses of livestock.

Below are two interactive satellite maps that show before and after images of areas hit hardest by the floods.