ZAGREB, Dec 11 (NNN-AGENCIES) — One would be migrant died Thursday and several others were rescued, along with a suspected trafficker, after a boat capsized on a river on the Croatia-Bosnia border, police said.
Police received a report in the early hours that a boat had capsized on the Sava river near Slavonski Brod and several people were in the water, a police statement said.
Emergency services were immediately sent and “pulled 13 foreign nationals from the cold river one of whom showed no signs of life”, it added.
A firefighting official confirmed that one person was found dead.
All the rescued people suffering from hypothermia were taken to hospital in Slavonski Brod, some 190 kilometres east of Zagreb.
A Bosnian national suspected of trafficking was also hospitalised and is under police supervision.
Croatia is a major transit country for undocumented migrants trying to reach Europe on a route through the Balkans. — NNN-AGENCIES