Zagreb, April 11 (CP) – The Split police have arrested a 75-year-old widow on charges of sexual harassment of her 86-year-old neighbour.
The harassed man has said that he had been persecuted by the woman for the past 20 years, but the attacks increased over the past four years since his wife died.
Suffering from mental illness, […]
Zagreb, April 9 (CP) – The wife of Zagreb’s police chief Marijan Benko is left without her computer following her car being broken into and her laptop stolen.
Although it is a matter of common sense to place valuables out of sight of potential robbers when a car is parked, this bit of knowledge eluded the […]
Zagreb, April 2 (CP) – An attempt to workout in his self-made gym cost a 17-year-old youth from Sesvete near Zagreb a serious injury.
The young man was attempting to do chin-ups on a homemade piece of workout equipment when it gave way, the young man falling and rendering himself unconscious.
He was urgently rushed to hospital […]
Zagreb, March 27 (CP) – A man allegedly rummaging through a garbage can was killed when a hand grenade exploded around midnight on Wednesday in Zagreb.
The police and an ambulance had been summoned to the scene, only to pronounce the man dead.
The incident is still being investigated and the police on the scene were tight-lipped, […]
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – A huge boulder of some 180 centimetres in diameter dislodged from a larger stone mass in the picturesque town of Samobor close to Zagreb, hitting a home and making its way into the living room in the early hours of Tuesday.
The large stone had broken off a nearby cliff and […]
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – The coastal town of Dubrovnik was battered by bad weather on Monday with mini-tornados hitting the area accompanied by wind and hale.
The storm witnessed by the residents of the region was said to had also produced lots of hale and at least 12 twisters.
The locals have said that if this […]
Zagreb, March 25 (CP) – A car thief from the town of Karlovac was arrested not far from Rijeka suspected of stealing five cars, but his arrest did not go smoothly.
After being cornered near the Novi Vinodolski resort by the Rijeka police, the 39-year-old suspect attempted to run over a policeman and then fled to […]
Zagreb, March 21 (CP) – A veteran kindergarten teacher of 22 years offered the children in the coastal town of Sibenik dog biscuits causing an uproar.
The incident happened some two weeks ago, but its details have only surfaced. The move would have gone unnoticed had a parent not been present and even offered a biscuit.
An […]
Zagreb, March 18 (CP) – A 51-year-old man sustained injuries to the head when his fridge exploded in his face.
The accident happened in Gornji Muc not far from the coastal city of Split on Monday, as the man was trying to fix the refrigerator and the appliance simply exploded.
The man was rushed to the Split […]
Zagreb, March 16 (CP) – Some 20 bicycles were stolen between Wednesday night and Thursday morning from a top Croatian hotel in the northern coastal resort of Porec.
The robbers broke through the chained metal cages where the bikes belonging to German and Austrian riders competing in the Istria Spring race that was held there at […]
