The body of another migrant, who died when a boat overturned on the Drina river, was found today in Zalužje in the municipality of Bratunac, confirmed to Srna news agency Zlatan Simić, commander of the Territorial Fire and Rescue Unit.
Simic said that these 11 bodies were found in the Drina after yesterday’s overturning of a boat with migrants who tried to cross illegally from Serbia to Bosnia and Herzegovina.
The boat overturned in the early hours of the morning between Drlača near Ljubovija and Orlica near Zvornik.
According to the words of the 15 migrants who managed to swim ashore, this morning the boat with 30 of them overturned in the Drina river in the Orlica locality.
“The municipality of Bratunac alerted RUCZ RS. Our search and rescue team on water and underwater from Bratunac immediately went out to the Drina,” announced RUCZ RS.
In the Zvornik Police Department, it was said that the police detained 14 migrants who were determined to be from Morocco, and who were smuggled on one of the boats down the Drina near Bratunac, while the other boat overturned. It is assumed that the boats with migrants left across the Drina from the area of the municipality of Ljubovija.
On this occasion, the Border Police of Bosnia and Herzegovina also announced.
“In the early hours of the morning, in the area of the municipality of Bratunac, police officers of the BiH Border Police, undertaking regular state border surveillance activities, recorded an event in which, for now, unknown persons from the territory of the Republic of Serbia tried to smuggle a large number of illegal migrants into Bosnia and Herzegovina.
According to the currently available information, the boat in which a large number of migrants were was overturned at the moment. The on-duty prosecutor of the BiH Prosecutor’s Office has been informed about all of the above, and at this moment everything is being done to establish the facts and take all measures and actions to shed light on this event,” stated the Border Police of BiH.
