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SPANTOV (Romania): Thousands of Romanian flood victims spent a fourth day in tents on hills overlooking the Danube on Thursday while hundreds more waited anxiously to see whether the river would inundate their communities. In the village of Spantov, 100 km southeast of Bucharest, where residents fled surging flood waters — the worst in living memory— at the weekend, sheep mingled with braying donkeys, crying children and adults resting in the warm sunshine in the largest tent community of about 300. President Traian Basescu visited evacuees on Thursday in the southern county of Calarasi, where over 3,000 displaced people are living in army tents. About 148 communities in Romania have been affected by flooding, and almost 16,000 persons have been forced to evacuate, the Interior Ministry said. Authorities said they were taking measures to prevent the spread of disease. — AP

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