Mayor seeks to raze flood-hit Slovenia village as climate change bites

Braslovce, Slovenia (AFP) Oct 10, 2023

After calamitous floods hit two thirds of Slovenia in August, one mayor took a radical decision – to raze most of the houses in one village rather than rebuild them.

“My role is to ensure people have a safe life,” Tomaz Zohar told AFP, and living in Letus “is definitely not safe”.

Knowing worse was to come with climate change, he said he had no choice.

August’s flooding was the wors
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