ZAGREB, Croatia — A boat carrying migrants overturned early on Thursday on the Sava river in eastern Croatia, killing at least one person and injuring several others, officials said.

The accident happened in the eastern town of Slavonski Brod, by the border with Bosnia. Migrants were apparently trying to cross the Sava River in dense fog when their boat capsized, rescuers told HRT state television.

Head of the firefighters' in the town Ivan Vuleta said emergency services received a call around 5:30 a.m. that people were in the river and they rushed to the scene in rescue boats. Vuleta had first said three people died in the accident.

Police said a man from Bosnia is suspected of people smuggling. He has been hospitalized.

The migrants' nationalities have not been specified.

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