Sisak

The quake had a magnitude of 4.3 on the Richter scale.
Residents of Banja Luka felt an earthquake today, just before 11 a.m., with an epicenter in central Croatia.
According to the European Mediterranean Seismological Center (EMSC), the epicenter was 14 kilometers southwest of Sisak, near Petrinja.

More than a month after a powerful earthquake hit central Croatia, lawmakers on Friday will vote on amendments to the post-earthquake reconstruction law - amid complaints that the basic needs of many people in the affected areas have still not been met.

The Croatian Office for the Suppression of Corruption and Organised Crime, USKOK, announced on Monday that it will instruct the police to investigate suspicions of possible negligence and other failings during the post-war reconstruction of buildings that were badly damaged by the powerful earthquake that hit the Banovina area of Sisak-Moslavina county in central Croatia last week.

"The government is currently facing two crises, COVID-19 and earthquakes, we decided today to declare a catastrophe in the Sisak-Moslavina County, parts of Zagreb and Karlovac County, but also to form a Crisis Staff headed by Tomo Medved. Representatives of all will be included. Milosevic and Horvat will be the deputies", Plenkovi said, as Jutarnji reports.

After a severe earthquake struck the Croatian capital Zagreb in March this year, another series of slightly smaller quakes hit the country south of the capital on Monday.

The strongest one with a magnitude of 5 on the Richter scale had its epicenter some 12 kilometres southwest of Sisak, 60 km south of Zagreb.

Beneath the landmark red-brick bridge in the town of Sisak, some 50 kilometres from the Croatian capital Zagreb, there's an unusual statue.

It depicts seven small children standing or sitting around a rock in a - now dried-up - pool of water. Nothing about it suggests its purpose.

A Croatian court ruled that the state must pay 8,000 euros in damages to Pero Dragojevic, a Serb civilian tortured by a special police unit called the ‘Wolves’ in the town of Sisak in August 1991.

Croatian investigative journalist Domagoj Margetic said the "atmosphere of hate" in society was one possible reason for the assault on him on Tuesday in a square in Zagreb.

An unidentified man holding a bottle first insulted Margetic and then started to hit him on the head and body. Margetic later received medical treatment.

Croatia's anti-organised crime office, USKOK, on Tuesday said it had indicted Marina Lovric Merzel, the former prefect of the Sisak Moslavina County.

Lovric Merzel, a former member of the  governing Social Democratic Party, SDP, and member of the Croatian parliament, has been under investigation since April 2014, when she was arrested and put into custody for five months.

Survivors joined a memorial ceremony for victims of the concentration camp in Sisak where Serb, Jewish and Roma children were imprisoned by the Nazis and Croatia’s wartime Ustasa regime.