By The Associated Press |GARDINOVCI, Serbia—Serbian authorities on Tuesday started evacuating nearly 200 animals that have been stranded on a river island for weeks and were facing hunger and cold as temperatures dropped. The cows, calves, and horses got stuck on the Krcedinska Ada island in the middle of the Danube river after water levels rose sharply last month, blocking their way back to the shore. Krcedinska Ada island is located about 50 kilometers (30 miles) north of the capital, Belgrade. This week, warm weather gave way to a spate of snowy and freezing weather that swept the Balkan region. The Serbian government’s Ministry of Agriculture has said that a total of 97 cows, 40 calves, and 70 horses were stranded on Krcedinska Ada.
