The body was carried from the water and after some time fishermen that were fishing some 15 meters below saw the body mired among the branches. They called police and ambulance.

Milica Zafirova (67) from the settlement Babi in Stip, a day before yesturday in the afternoon slipped into the river Bregalnica and drowned. Milica charged buckets with water from the river and irrigate the garden, which was located next to the bed of Bregalnica. She was alone and nobody noticed. The body was carried from the water and after some time fishermen saw the body mired among the branches. They called police and ambulance.

"We found that the woman died from strangulation before few hours. How she drowned, I can’t say, but there was no traces of violence. Perhaps previously received a stroke, and fell into the river, because the woman, according to statements of relatives, last year has small brain attack, "said Doctor Marian Angelov, chief of emergency in Stip.

The article is taken from Vest.