(23 Aug 2024)
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Bratunac, Bosnia – 23 August 2024
1. Various of rescue teams searching the Drina river
2. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vladan Rankic head of the water rescue team:
"The water rescue team of the republican civil protection administration of the Republic of Srpska continued the search for the drowned migrants that happened yesterday. We went to the Drina river early in the morning, we started the search from the location ‘Rajska Plaza’ downstream towards Zvornik lake, the lower part is being searched by the border service of Bosnia and Herzegovina and that’s how we meet each other."
3. Various of rescue teams searching the Drina river
4. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Vladan Rankic head of the water rescue team:
"The Drina river, and especially this part from Bajna Baste to Zvornik (towns along the river) is located between two hydropower plants, so there are frequent changes in the water level, that happen very often and it is not safe to cross the river that was attempted yesterday and we witnessed what happened. That was at night, it is a dangerous river for those who know it, and it is even more dangerous for those who do not know it."
5. Search and rescue team on river
6. Wide of river
STORYLINE:
Search teams in Bosnia and Serbia continued their search Friday for missing Middle Eastern migrants who were in a boat that overturned a day earlier on the river that borders the two countries.
So far, at least 10 bodies, including a baby, have been found in the Drina River. The search continued on Friday.
Of the 18 migrants who made it to the shore, 16 are from Syria and two are from Egypt, Serbian police said. Ten of them are minors.
It was not immediately possible to confirm the exact number of people on the capsized vessel.
Migrants using the so-called Balkan land route in their efforts to reach Western Europe come to Serbia from Bulgaria or North Macedonia before moving on to Hungary, Croatia or Bosnia.
AP video shot by Vojislav Stjepanovic
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