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Romanian Prime Minister Calin Tariceanu appealed to people in the threatened areas to help rescue teams reinforce defences.
But TV footage showed young men playing soccer in Bistret and smoking cigarettes while gendarmes and soldiers piled sandbags on the grassy mud dam.
“We are working to defend their houses and any additional hand is welcomed,” Tariceanu told the state radio.
Villagers across the region pleaded for more aid, with some Bulgarians accusing the government of sending too little too late.
“Nobody cares about us,” said 53-year old Simeon, who lives in a block of apartments just 50 yards from the Danube near the port in Lom, a town of 6,000 people. Authorities estimate almost half of it is under water.