SPLIT, Aug 12 (Hina) - Cigarette butts carelessly discarded by two Croatians and a French national caused a fire that raged on the southern island of Brac for a week, police reported Tuesday, adding that charges would be pressed
against the three.
SPLIT, Aug 12 (Hina) - Cigarette butts carelessly discarded by two
Croatians and a French national caused a fire that raged on the
southern island of Brac for a week, police reported Tuesday, adding
that charges would be pressed against the three. #L#
The Frenchwoman, who was in a group of French tourists led by the two
Croatian tourist guides, is beyond the reach of the Croatian police
for the time being.
Almost 2,000 hectares of pine forest, crops and underbrush were
consumed by the fire which the three women started on July 30.
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