Last weekend, on August 6 and 7, a violent rainstorm ravaged Macedonia. Flash floods caused by it killed 21 people.
The storm lashed the Macedonian capital, Skopje, and the nearby districts. The disaster resulted in flooded villages, overturned cars, smashed houses. Six people are still missing.
A lot of damaged and drowned cars are abandoned in the suburbs.
Houses were also abandoned as it was too risky to stay in them.
Photo: Macedonian citizens leave their homes wading across flooded roads.
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