Zagreb, June 20 (CP) – A crane dropped as many as 20 meters and fell to the ground at a building site in the centre of the Croatian capital Zagreb, but luckily no one was injured.
The Pionir company responsible for the construction works at the site is investigating the causes of the incident.
Zagreb, June 8 (CP) – A retired medical doctor, 71, climbing with a group of walking enthusiasts dropped dead after reaching the top of Mount Biokovo near Split and complaining of not feeling well on Sunday morning.
Split rescue services managed to bring his body down from the mountain using a helicopter and by the late […]
Zagreb, May 5 (CP) – A Czech tourist had his nose bitten off by a stingray he was attempting to take a picture of in a fish pool it was placed in at the Kornati national park.
The fish had been tied by its tail as it was waiting for a customer and when the Czech […]
Zagreb, June 4 (CP) – A 29-year-old man from a village near Slavonski Brod had lost his life while a shotgun he was transporting on his motorbike fired.
He was hit in the stomach in the evening hours and lay on the ground until dawn, when he was found by his grandmother.
It was established by the […]
Zagreb, May 20 (CP) – A German national suffered serious injuries during takeoff while attempting to fly a paraglider on the Kamena hill on the northern island of Krk on Monday.
The 44-year-old man who was not named was together with a group of paragliding enthusiasts when he attempted to take off and crashed into the […]
Zagreb, May 19 (CP) – A shop assistant in the coastal city of Split had suffered a terrible shock and had a lucky break, when she opened a box of bananas only to find a snake in it.
The grey and brown snake, which is some 30 centimetres long, had fled from the box as soon […]
Zagreb, May 1 (CP) – A 57-year-old priest has died as he was delivering mass at a funeral in Croatia’s capital Zagreb.
The priest, Ivan Lovric, suddenly fell to the ground, as he was speaking at a grave at the Mirosevac cemetery in Zagreb.
It is believed that the priest died of a heart attack.
Zagreb, April 20 (CP) — A father is to sue a hospital in Dubrovnik after his son was left with gauze in his nasal cavity obstructing his breathing after a tonsil operation.
The seven-year-old suffered breathing problems after he was released home from a Dubrovnik hospital after undergoing a tonsil operation and he could only breath […]
Zagreb, April 20 (CP) – As many as two venomous snakebites were recorded in Croatia on Sunday, but both victims are said to be stable.
An elderly woman was bit in the foot by a venomous snake in Croatia’s Lika area after which she was rushed to a Gospic hospital in a serious state, but it […]
Zagreb, April 16 (CP) – A 61-year-old man tried to commit suicide in front of the Zagreb city authorities’ building on Wednesday by setting himself alight.
The man’s life was saved by security guards who leapt out of the building and calmed him down and brought him indoors.
The man was taken to a psychiatric hospital following […]
