On Sunday evening rescuers found the body of the third worker who died in a fire which broke out at the Dubrovnik hydro-power plant on Thursday in the plant's drainagage canal.

The body was finally recovered after a four-day extensive search involving local police, firefighters, local residents, and medical teams.

The three workers are casualties of a fire which broke out in the subterranean part of the five-storey hydro plant on Thursday morning. The plant, located on the southernmost tip of Croatia near the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, was built some 550 metres from the Adriatic sea.

Six out of nine workers who were at the plant on Thursday morning were evacuated, while three others tried to escape the blaze by taking off their clothes and swimming through a 500-metre drainage canal towards the open sea.

However, bodies of two of the workers were recovered later on Thursday after firefighters managed to put out the blaze.

The cause of the fire at the plant, originally built in 1965 and operated by Croatia’s national power board HEP, is still unknown.

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