Disaster

Bodies of children that drowned in river recovered

ALEKSINAC -- The bodies of a three-year-old girl and an 11-month-old boy who on Wednesday drowned in the Turija River in southeastern Serbia were found on Thursday.

ALEKSINAC - Bodies of the three-year-old girl and the 11-month-old boy who fell into the surging Turija River along with their mother, were found on Thursday by the divers of the Serbian mountain rescue service (GSS), after extensive search of the riverbed and banks, GSS released.

LUCANI - A commission tasked with assessing damage to agricultural crops has submitted to the Serbian government a preliminary report estimating the damage caused by floods in the Lucani municipality to be RSD 46 million.

KOSOVSKA MITROVICA - A 2.9-Richter degree earthquake was registered at 4.46 a.m. on Thursday in the Kosovska Mitrovica area, the Serbian Seismological Institute reported on its website.

The intensity in the epicentre of the earthquake is estimated to have been four degrees on the Mercalli scale.

Three members of the Togo-flagged Ag-Marina were missing on Thursday after the cargo ship went down in the early hours 30 nautical miles off the western coast of Crete, the Athens-Macedonia News Agency reported.

Four crew members were rescued by coast guard officers and three, possibly Russian nationals, are missing, according to reports.

An overflowing municipal dam flooded on Wednesday night the village Gyurgich and affected several other villages in Vidin region, northwestern Bulgaria. 

No one was injured, as the residents were evacuated, but the tidal wave destroyed bridges and sewers and flooded homes and fields. The electricity, according to the public broadcaster BNT, was also cut.  

Regional authorities in Evros on Greece’s northern border warned on Wednesday that the Evros River had reached dangerously high levels and was at risk of breaking its banks.

At the gauging station at Kipoi, the river had reached 4 meters on Wednesday, 40 centimeters above the recommended safe level.

The number of victims of the sunken South Korean ferry Sewol passed 150 and is expected to rise, as divers found new entries to the submerged levels. 

Dozens of bodies recovered on Tuesday and 28 the day before. Over a hundred passengers remain missing.

Toddler and baby drown in river

ALEKSINAC -- Two children are believed to have drowned on Wednesday in a village near the town of Aleksinac in southeastern Serbia, the police have said.

Pieces of debris that "might turn out to be a wreckage" of the Malaysian MH370 flight were found at a beach in the west of Australia, according to local media reports.