ZAGREB, Nov 6 (Hina) - The safety embankment along the Sava-Odra +canal gave way at about 1.20 am Friday morning. The water onslaught +which followed swept away two vehicles and one person has been +reported missing.+ The flood waters
swept away a car travelling down the road which is +subject to flooding reported Police Chief Zeljko Pul. The driver +and passengers managed to exit the vehicle which was swept away +towards the direction of Velika Gorica.+ Pul reported that at about 2.20 am police officers from Novi Zagreb +noticed an unidentified vehicle which too had been swept away by +flood waters and which was carrying two passengers. + This vehicle too was later located in Velika Gorica where only the +driver managed to exit.+ The police reported that the seventeen year old passenger had gone +missing and an intensive search is underway to find her.+ Flood waters subsided late on Thursday afternoon and th
ZAGREB, Nov 6 (Hina) - The safety embankment along the Sava-Odra
canal gave way at about 1.20 am Friday morning. The water onslaught
which followed swept away two vehicles and one person has been
reported missing.
The flood waters swept away a car travelling down the road which is
subject to flooding reported Police Chief Zeljko Pul. The driver
and passengers managed to exit the vehicle which was swept away
towards the direction of Velika Gorica.
Pul reported that at about 2.20 am police officers from Novi Zagreb
noticed an unidentified vehicle which too had been swept away by
flood waters and which was carrying two passengers.
This vehicle too was later located in Velika Gorica where only the
driver managed to exit.
The police reported that the seventeen year old passenger had gone
missing and an intensive search is underway to find her.
Flood waters subsided late on Thursday afternoon and three border
crossings to Slovenia which had earlier been closed down, were once
again re-opened to traffic.
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