More than 20 ships, some laden with explosives, have been exposed to the surface.
Intense droughts in Europe have brought the Danube River to its lowest water level in over a century, leaving dozens of sunken warships from World War II exposed for the first time, Reuters reported Friday.
"The German flotilla has left behind a big ecological disaster that threatens us, people of Prahovo," Velimir Trajilovic, a 74-year-old pensioner from Prahovo who wrote a book about the German ships said, according to Reuters.
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