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Drina

[ dree-nuh, -nah ]

noun

  1. a river in S Europe, flowing N along the part of the border between Serbia and Bosnia and Herzegovina to the Sava River at Belgrade, Serbia. 285 miles (459 km) long.


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At least nine migrants have drowned after their boat capsized while trying to cross the Drina River, which separates Serbia and Bosnia.

From BBC

The youngster was reported by the group he had traveled with to have drowned in the Drina near the town of Zvornik.

Moved by his interactions with the missing man’s family, Suljic started contacting local officials and various non-governmental organizations who help migrants with the idea of properly marking the nameless graves scattered along the Drina.

So in the closing days of January, the clusters of overgrown graves in public cemeteries of three towns along the Drina were cleared.

At the cemetery in Bijeljina, where nearly half of all the unidentified migrants pulled out of Drina so far are buried, 41 trees were planted and a memorial for the drowned was erected.

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