SAD FATE: 14-year-old Velika Morava drowning victim recently lost her father, spent young life in poverty

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A terrible tragedy struck the village of Donja Livadica near Velika Plana, where a girl born in 2012 drowned in the Velika Morava (Great Morava) river.

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Gendarmerie divers have located and retrieved the body from the river.

This accident shook the local community because this was a child who lived through severe family trauma - the girl recently lost her father, and lived with her mother in very difficult material conditions.

According to initial information, the victim and a friend  were walking by the river, and then decided to take a swim.

One at some point got out of the Velika Morava, while the other remained in the water and disappeared below the surface.

Other, still unconfirmed accounts from eyewitnesses say that the girls never intended to go into the water, but that the victim at one point slipped and fell in, at a location where sand and gravel extraction machines have created huge, deep underwater pits.

Competent services were immediately alerted and arrived at the scene, and Gendarmerie divers joined the search, which unfortunately ended with the officers recovering the 14-year-old's body.

The investigation is ongoing and ill establish all the circumstances of this great tragedy.

(Telegraf.rs)