Croatian police rescued a migrant Turkish woman and three of her children from the swollen Dragonja river on the Croatian-Slovenian border on Thursday night, and continued searching for a fourth child who is believed to have disappeared in the river, the Istria police department reported on Friday.

On Thursday evening, the Croatian police received a call for a rescue operation in the village of Dramac near the town of Buje.

During the rescue operation, the police officers and a local resident rescued an exhausted Turkish woman who was floating on a log along the river. The woman was taken out of the river to the Slovenian bank where an 18-year-old boy and a child had already been staying.

They informed the police that one more child had been with them, who had been dragged by the  river’s current while the woman had been trying to cross the Dragonja.

First medical aid was provided to the rescued migrants at the Plovanija border crossing and the woman was transported to the hospital in Pula, while the others were provided with adequate accommodation.

Police officers and firefighters from the local Croatian and Slovenian towns continued searching for the missing child all the night and on Friday morning.