SPLIT SPLIT, Jan 11 (Hina) - The bodies of three Croatian seamen, killed in last week's shipwreck near Ancona, arrived in the southern Croatian port of Split aboard the ship 'Dubrovnik' on Thursday. The three seamen will be buried
today. Awaiting the caskets with the bodies at the Split port were family members, Assistant Transport Minister Rino Petric, representatives of the port authorities and numerous fellow seamen and friends. The three seamen drowned when their ship, Nautica 64, capsized some 30 miles from the Italian coast near Ancona. One seaman, Geni Vukovic, saved himself by swimming to an oil rig, while the fifth seaman is held missing as a search after him yielded no results.(hina) rml
SPLIT, Jan 11 (Hina) - The bodies of three Croatian seamen, killed
in last week's shipwreck near Ancona, arrived in the southern
Croatian port of Split aboard the ship 'Dubrovnik' on Thursday.
The three seamen will be buried today.
Awaiting the caskets with the bodies at the Split port were family
members, Assistant Transport Minister Rino Petric,
representatives of the port authorities and numerous fellow seamen
and friends.
The three seamen drowned when their ship, Nautica 64, capsized some
30 miles from the Italian coast near Ancona. One seaman, Geni
Vukovic, saved himself by swimming to an oil rig, while the fifth
seaman is held missing as a search after him yielded no results.
(hina) rml