Albanian President Sali Berisha announced a day of mourning on 9 May following a boat accident in which 13 teenagers and one adult drowned, AFP reported. The boat capsized on Lake Prespa, near the border with Greece and Macedonia, two days earlier.
Police suspect that the boat was overloaded.
The youths, aged 17-18, came from Starova and Pogradec and had planned to visit a church on Maligradi Island. The boat was only some 100 meters from the shore when it sank, but most of the youths could not swim. Four survived the accident. The Croatian Embassy on 7 May denied Bosnian media reports about alleged secret talks between Croatian President Franjo Tudjman and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic, Onasa stated. According to a story run by the biweekly magazine Slobodna Bosna, Karadzic had been smuggled into western Herzegovina in a car with license plates issued by the Croatian Community of Herceg-Bosna.