Over 200,000 homes in various areas Bosnia-Herzegovina remained without electrification on Christmas Day, for the second day in a row, the Balkan country’s authorities announced, as a snowstorm that hit it on Tuesday continued to cause problems.

Towns and villages mainly in the north-west and central part of the country are affected by outages, according to the two largest Bosnian electricity companies.

The snowstorm ended yesterday, a day when the Catholic population celebrated Christmas, but many roads remained closed, cutting off many communities.

“Our teams are on the field non-stop, they do everything,” assured Jelena Markovic, representative of the distribution company Elektroprenos BiH. Most of the problem transmission lines are located in hard-to-reach areas, he explained.

48 people buried under snow in Croatia – Trouble in Slovenia, Serbia

In the meantime at the neighboring one Croatianemergency services reported that they rescued 48 people who had been buried by snow in the central Lika region.

In Slovenia, authorities said strong winds and snow prevented a helicopter from rescuing a Hungarian hiker stranded in the Alps since Sunday.

In the west Serbiasome 10,000 homes were without power for most of yesterday, according to the Tanjug news agency, which cited Ivan Spaits, an emergency response official in the city of Sabac. However, supply was restored to most residential customers yesterday, according to the same source.