VOCIN, Nov 14 (Hina) - The head of the Virovitica-Podravina County Police Department, Djuro Matovina, on Sunday briefed the press in Vocin on an incident in which six hunters were killed and four wounded. The incident occurred around
two p.m. on Saturday, when the vehicle carrying the hunters drove over an anti-tank mine. The blast claimed the lives of Austrian citizens Johan Gerhinger, aged 60, Franz Scheitl, aged 39, Franc Hammerbacher, aged 64, and Franz Volger, aged 45, and Croats Zorica Runje, aged 39, and Marko Bartolovic, aged 56. Seriously wounded were Davorin Runje, aged 49, and Austrian citizens Gerhard Marx, aged 50, Gerhard Lehner, aged 31, and Fritz Gedinger, aged 34. They were taken to a hospital in Bjelovar, and according to the latest medical report, their condition is stable. The area where the explosion occurred was cleared of mines in December 1991. There have been no incide
VOCIN, Nov 14 (Hina) - The head of the Virovitica-Podravina County
Police Department, Djuro Matovina, on Sunday briefed the press in
Vocin on an incident in which six hunters were killed and four
wounded.
The incident occurred around two p.m. on Saturday, when the vehicle
carrying the hunters drove over an anti-tank mine.
The blast claimed the lives of Austrian citizens Johan Gerhinger,
aged 60, Franz Scheitl, aged 39, Franc Hammerbacher, aged 64, and
Franz Volger, aged 45, and Croats Zorica Runje, aged 39, and Marko
Bartolovic, aged 56.
Seriously wounded were Davorin Runje, aged 49, and Austrian
citizens Gerhard Marx, aged 50, Gerhard Lehner, aged 31, and Fritz
Gedinger, aged 34. They were taken to a hospital in Bjelovar, and
according to the latest medical report, their condition is stable.
The area where the explosion occurred was cleared of mines in
December 1991. There have been no incidents of this kind in the past
eight years.
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