ZAGREB, Dec 11, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - One would be migrant died Thursday and several others were rescued, along with a suspected trafficker, after a boat capsized on a river on the Croatia-Bosnia border, police said.

Police received a report in the early hours that a boat had capsized on the Sava river near Slavonski Brod and several people were in the water, a police statement said.

Emergency services were immediately sent and "pulled 13 foreign nationals from the cold river one of whom showed no signs of life", it added.

A firefighting official confirmed to AFP that one person was found dead.

All the rescued people suffering from hypothermia were taken to hospital in Slavonski Brod, some 190 kilometres (118 miles) east of Zagreb.

A Bosnian national suspected of trafficking was also hospitalised and is under police supervision.

Croatia is a major transit country for undocumented migrants trying to reach Europe on a route through the Balkans.