A boat with illegal migrants who tried to cross the Drina River on the border between Serbia and Bosnia capsized last night, Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said, quoted by Tanjug. Some of the people in the boat are missing, and a search operation has been organized, quoted by BTA.
„This morning, at around 5 o'clock, the border police of the Serbian town of Lubovija were informed by the border authorities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as by a local resident, that a boat with illegal migrants who were trying to cross the river from Serbian country between the Serbian village of Durlače in the municipality of Lyubovija and the Bosnian village of Orlice in the municipality of Zvornik, overturned during the night, he said.
According to the migrants who reached the shore, there were about 25 people in the boat, and the police and firefighters found 18 people on the shore, three of them children.
At the moment, the river and the coast are being intensively searched, the Ministry of the Interior of Serbia announced.
Members of the diving unit and gendarmerie of the Ministry of Interior of Serbia are expected to arrive to join the search for the remaining migrants, Minister Dacic added.