Croatian police and the Croatian Mountain Rescue Service (HGSS) on Friday discovered the bodies of three illegal migrants and 20 live migrants in the flooded border area near the forest of Radinje, 50 kilometres from Slavonski Brod, Brod-Posavina County police said on Friday.

The migrants were found this morning by the Stara Gradiška border police.

First, the police officers found 20 migrants who had illegally entered Croatia and in their vicinity two unknown corpses. During the day, police and the HGSS searched for another man, whose body was found during the afternoon.

A post-mortem will be done on all three corpses to determine the cause of death.

Brod-Posavina County police said that unlawful border crossings were high-risk, especially in this period, when the forest area along the River Sava is flooded.

Police are always ready to help, but we are worried that due to the winter weather there could be very serious consequences when someone tries to swim across the river, such as the tragic death of several persons today, said the spokesman of Brod-Posavina County police, Antun Kovacevic.