In pictures: Danube flood misery

Villagers walk down a flooded street in the village of Rast, Romania - one of several areas where the swollen river Danube has burst its banks.

An elderly man and woman evacuated from Rast weep as they try to build a chair on dry land.

At a tent camp set up for evacuees from Rast, a Romanian doctor vaccinates a villager.

Across the border in the Bulgarian town of Nikopol, boats offer the best means of navigating flooded streets.

A man evacuated from Rast village picks corn from the cob. A huge area of farmland has been destroyed by flooding.

A man waits outside the porch of his Nikopol home. More than half of riverside homes in the port town are reported to have been flooded.

A boy loads a boat with belongings salvaged from a part-submerged building in Nikopol.

A soldier carries sandbags to strengthen defences against swollen river waters in Serbia, where some of the flooding has begun to recede.

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