Hot temperatures and low rainfall in Europe is causing river levels to drop, with a Second World War bomb found in the Danube.
Slovak police said they were called to Radvaň nad Dunajom municipality on Sunday after the receding waters revealed an object suspected to be ordinance from the war, near the village of Virt.
A field team from the Criminalistics and Forensics Institute of the Presidium of the Slovak Armed Forces in Bratislava was subsequently called in for a definitive assessment and precise identification of the object, as well as to confirm whether it was indeed ammunition from the Second World War.
Traffic on the Danube was stopped while the object was removed and disposed of, with police reminding the public under no circumstances to touch or interfere with such objects.
Also on Sunday ten TMi-35 anti-tank mines, one hand grenade, and one kilogram of mixed infantry ammunition were found in the Danube at the at the Batthyány Square dock in Budapest.
Water levels are so low in the Hungarian capital the remains of the Ferenc József Bridge, which was destroyed in the Siege of Budapest in 1945, can be seen in the Danube.
The Hungarian government announced that the lack of water from the river only one unit of the Paks nuclear power plant will continue to operate, at 50% capacity.
Should levels drop further the plant could be shut down entirely.
At Baja, the water level dropped enough to reveal a shipwreck on the riverbed which locals were able to walk up to and inspect, and in Bulgaria the remains of what is believed to be a woolly mammoth were found in the depleted Danube.