CORPSES OF THREE DROWNED IRANIANS FOUND IN SAVA RIVER

SLAVONSKI BROD, May 31 (Hina) - In the past two days, bodies of three drowned persons were found in the Sava River, in the town of Slavonski Brod and upstream near Dubocac, county police reported on Wednesday. The drowned persons are believed to have been Iranians. With a body found in the river in Slavonski Brod there was also a passport which reads that its holder is an Iranian at the age of some 50. Another drowned man, found in Dubocac, is a 27-year-old Iranian, according to travel papers discovered with him. The third corpse was female and she was found near Dubocac. No document was found with her, but she is believed to have been of the Asian descent. Slavonski Brod-Posavina police reported no traces of violence had been noticed on the corpses. The drowned persons are believed to be a part of groups of foreigners who have been trying, in recent months, to cross illegally the border on the Sava between Bosnia- Herzegovina and Croatia on their tour towards western Europe. In April, border police in this county prevented 22 Chinese, 23 Iranian, 40 Kurdish and four Bosnian nationals from passing the frontier illegally. In May they thwarted similar attempts of 20 Turks and one Bosnian citizen. (hina) mm ms