One soldier lost his life on Tuesday and another suffered serious injuries after the tank vehicle with water in which they were driving was overturned when extinguishing a forest fire in Montenegro. The accident occurred north of the metropolis of Podgorica, where the flames stand out the next day, TASR writes according to AFP and DPA.
The Montenegrin Ministry of Defense informed that The army is investigating the cause and circumstances of the incident. AFP, withdrawing local media, reports that both men were forty -year -olds and drove in the aforementioned army tank, but it came out of the road in uneven terrain and rolled over. The deceased man was a Montenegrin soldier. The DPA writes slightly differently that he died when the tank rolled it.
In Montenegro, there are currently several forest fires that have already forced evacuation of dozens of people and destroyed several houses. As a result of the heat, there was also a large fire near Budva on the Adriatic coast. Others stand out around Podgorice or in the north of the country near the border with Serbia. Montenegro has already asked for help with their extinguishing NATO, the EU and partners in the region. Serbia, Croatia, Italy and Slovenia sent help.
Forest fires stimulated by high temperatures are also plagued by the surrounding Balkan countries, including neighboring Albania or Croatia. Extreme heat in the Balkans is expected by the vast majority of the current week, and according to meteorologists, temperatures in some places could reach up to 41 degrees Celsius.
In the mountainous central part of Albania, at least four villages evacuated on Tuesday for flames. Dozens of fires in this Balkan country managed to quench in this Balkan country, but in the meantime others have broke out. The police there believe that many of them were caused by arson.
