VINKOVCI, May 31 (Hina) - Police found the body of a drowned Turkish citizen in Sava River, near Stitar, on Thursday, Vukovar-Srijem County police reported. The man was identified as Sami Kizirslan, born in 1978.
VINKOVCI, May 31 (Hina) - Police found the body of a drowned Turkish
citizen in Sava River, near Stitar, on Thursday, Vukovar-Srijem
County police reported.
The man was identified as Sami Kizirslan, born in 1978. #L#
Police are connecting the body with an attempt of about a dozen
Kurds to cross the Bosnian border into Croatia by boat on the night
between May 13 and 14. According to one of the four surviving Kurds,
the boat carried 16 people.
Police are presuming that the boat carried more than 16 people and
are continuing to monitor the river.
So far, and not counting Kizirslan, police have found the bodies of
12 Kurds who drowned.
Kizirslan's body was transported to the pathology department of the
Vinkovci General Hospital, where an autopsy will be performed.
(hina) lml