Updated: 10:01 a.m. ET April 21, 2006
SOFIA, Bulgaria - Evacuations continued Friday in flooded Bulgarian towns along the swollen Danube River, as experts predicted waters would begin to recede next week.
In the northwestern city of Vidin, the Danube level decreased by less than an inch overnight, but people continued to leave riverside neighborhoods. Some 2,000 people have been evacuated, and dozens of homes were under water, state news agency BTA reported.
In Nikopol, the Danube rose 2 inches to an all-time high of 29 feet, forcing more evacuations, the civil defense agency said. The city hall and most houses in the riverside area were submerged.
