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Zagreb, June 27 (CP) – A construction workers was killed when some metal tubing fell onto his head as it was being unloaded from a truck.
The incident happened in Zagreb’s Maksimir area and it resulted in traffic being halted for several hours in the street where it occurred.
 

Zagreb, June 24 (CP) – The Croatian capital’s old town is to be shut to all traffic as of July 1, the only vehicles allowed in the area will be those of emergency services, the residents, those of parliament, government, constitutional court and the city assembly.
The vehicles allowed in the area will be issued special […]

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, May 18 (CP) – A 23-year old Canadian citizen of Chinese origin was beaten up by a group of shaved head youths in the centre of Croatian capital Zagreb on Saturday.
The man was found curled up in a ball in Zagreb’s old city by a passer-by who called for help after she had discovered […]

Zagreb, May 13 (CP) – The police and neighbours came upon a gruesome discovery on Tuesday, as they discovered a totally decomposed body in bed in a locked flat in the centre of the Croatian capital Zagreb.
The body of a woman who had gone missing a long time ago was discovered in a bed in […]

Zagreb, May 2 (CP) – Residents of Zagreb are remembering May 2 and 3 of 1995, when Zagreb was rocketed and six people killed in an attack in retaliation of Croatian forces retaking control of the so-called Krajina.
The cluster bombs rained on Zagreb, the attack ordered by Milan Martic, who has been sentenced to 35 […]

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 28 (CP) – A section of a facade on an old building in the center of Zagreb fell onto the roof of a nearby house, damaging it, but luckily no one was injured in the incident.
The emergency services hurried to the scene and a construction firm is now making the facade safe.
Zagreb has […]

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – A debate in parliament has shown that according to a recent survey some 40 percent of Croatian children between the ages of 11 and 13 are not engaged in sports or any type of physical activity and some 90 percent of them watch TV for about four hours a day.
The […]

Zagreb, April 28 (CP) – Some 500 Zagreb secondary school pupils gathered in the Croatian capital’s main square in protest of the upcoming state exam for which they claim preparations have not been thorough.
The Zagreb pupils together with those in several other Croatian cities are demanding that the introduction of the exam be postponed until […]