Macedonia raises storm death toll to 22; toddler missing

A man pushes a wheelbarrow with mud from his flooded house after a storm, in the village of Stajkovci, just east of Skopje, Macedonia, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Macedonia's government declared a state of emergency Sunday in parts of the capital hit by torrential rain and floods that left at least 21 people dead, six missing and dozens injured, authorities said.(AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) (The Associated Press)

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A woman stands by a damaged car in the house yard after flooding, in the village of Stajkovci, just east of Skopje, Macedonia, on Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Macedonia's government declared a state of emergency Sunday in parts of the capital hit by torrential rain and floods that left at least 21 people dead, six missing and dozens injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) (The Associated Press)

Muddy clothes, taken out of a flooded house, hang on a fence to dry after a storm, in the village of Stajkovci, just east of Skopje, Macedonia, Monday, Aug. 8, 2016. Macedonia's government declared a state of emergency Sunday in parts of the capital hit by torrential rain and floods that left at least 21 people dead, six missing and dozens injured, authorities said. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski) (The Associated Press)

Macedonian authorities have raised the death toll from a heavy storm that hit the capital Skopje over the weekend to 22 and say a 16-month-old girl still remains missing.

Police spokeswoman Natalija Spirova Kordikj says the drowned body of the last victim, a 12-year-old boy, was found late Monday in a bus stop.

The head of the Skopje's Red Cross, Suzana Tuneva, said Tuesday that food, water and clothes are being distributed to about 10,000 people in the worst affected areas of Stajkovci, Indzikovo, Ekonomija and Aracinovo. About 3,500 homes have been flooded and many schools have been turned into emergency shelters for flood victims.

A two-week state of emergency has been declared in the afflicted northern parts of Skopje.

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