Ovcar Banja: Body of Man, 88, Pulled From Morava
The body of a man born in 1938 was recovered from the West Morava River near Ovcar Banja. Cacak police say there are no signs of a crime; the man reportedly had dementia.
The body of an elderly man was found in the West Morava River in Ovcar Banja on Wednesday, August 26, at around 1:15 p.m. Fishermen were the first to spot the body in the water and immediately alerted the authorities.
Officers from the Cacak Police Department, an Emergency Medical Services crew and firefighter rescuers responded to the scene. Members of the Sector for Emergency Situations also took part in pulling the body from the river.
News of the discovery was reported to Tanjug by the Cacak Police Department.
“This is an elderly man, born in 1938,” the Cacak Police Department said in a statement to Tanjug.
Born in 1938, the man was 88 years old. Police made the circumstances of the case public a day after the body was found.
According to police, no signs of a crime were found on the body.
Unofficial sources say the elderly man had been suffering from dementia and had other health problems as well. That detail is cited as a possible explanation for how he ended up in the water near Ovcar Banja, a spa town on the banks of the West Morava, at the foot of the Ovcar-Kablar Gorge.
