A hippopotamus named Nikica swimming in the flooded village of Berislavci, some 20 kilometres south of Montenegro’s capital Podgorica, yesterday. The hippo escaped from a flooded private zoo at the Skadar Lake as rivers overflowed after heavy rainfall continued to plague the Western Balkans with thousands evacuated in Bosnia, Serbia and Montenegro.

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