Rescuers have again on Friday intensified their search for a six-year-old boy who went missing in a rushing stream and for a man who went missing before that and is suspected to have been swept away by the river Bosna.
According to witnesses, the six-year-old was pulled away by a stream on Tuesday last week when he fell off his bicycle in the central Bosnian settlement of Begov Han during the massive floods which hit the country.
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Rescuers are searching for the boy for ten days already, but there is no trace of him yet.
Rescuers are also searching for Almir Gluhic since May 2 and are now focusing on the river Bosna as his clothes and personal belongings were found on its shore.
Rescuers from one of the two semi-autonomous entities within the country, the Federation (FBiH), said on Friday that 40 of its members will with six rescue boats continue the searches, and that the Water Search and Rescue Team ‘Neretva’ will help them with their two boats.
They will be searching the river Bosna from Begov Han to the town of Doboj and will maybe expand the search depending on the conditions on the ground.
Rescue teams from the Zenica-Doboj Canton (ZDK), Zepce, the ZDK Special Police, the Zepce Kayak Club ‘505’, and numerous hunters, locals and family members of the missing persons will also join the search.
Divers will not be sent out because of the low visibility in the Bosna river, while rescuers said that they will also search the trash which accumulated on the shores of the river and that minefields, especially in the areas around Zepce and Maglaj, are making the operation more difficult.
