Croatian officials yet to identify tourists killed in crash
Officials in Croatia are still trying to identify the five tourists killed in an accident in the north-west of the country yesterday morning.
It is believed three of the dead are Irish.
The driver of the mini-bus in which they were travelling also died when the van collided with a truck near Pula.
It is understood the group was on their way to Slovenia when the crash happened.
The bodies have been taken to a local hospital where autopsies are being carried out this afternoon.
A sixth tourist - also believed to be Irish - survived but is in a critical condition in hospital.
Sonja Djerasimovic of the Croatian news agency HINA says they still don't know what caused the accident:
“It was a frontal crash between a very big Italian truck and this little van”, she said.
“The Italian truck tried to stop and this all happened on his part of the road.”
She added: “There was no-one else involved, so obviously the little van with the tourists, somehow lost control and went into the Italian truck.”
