Three killed in catamaran–sailboat collision off Croatia

Three people were killed and one went missing after a large passenger catamaran with more than 100 people on board and a sailboat collided in Croatia's central Adriatic on Sunday, officials said. The accident occurred in the waters between the central islands of Solta and Brac when a "passenger vessel operated by a private domestic company collided with a French-flagged sailboat, which then sank", the sea and transport ministry said in a statement.

At the time of the accident, there were 118 passengers and seven crew members on the passenger vessel, while eight people were on the sailboat, three of whom were killed, the statement added. One person was still missing while the remaining four were rescued from the sea. The nationality of the victims and circumstances that led to the collision were not yet known. The regional Slobodna Dalmacija daily reported, quoting unofficial sources, that the victims were Czech nationals. Local media published pictures of the the several dozen metre (feet) long catamaran and the sinking sailboat.