Crowds across ex-Yugoslavia republics mourn singer's death


  • World
  • Sunday, 21 Feb 2021

People mourn the death of Djordje Balasevic a Serbian singer who remained widely popular throughout the former Yugoslavia after he died from coronavirus disease COVID-19 in Novi Sad Serbia February 20 2021. REUTERSMarko Djurica

People mourn the death of Djordje Balasevic, a Serbian singer who remained widely popular throughout the former Yugoslavia, after he died from coronavirus disease (COVID-19), in Novi Sad, Serbia, February 20, 2021. REUTERS/Marko Djurica

BELGRADE (Reuters) - Large crowds gathered on streets in Belgrade, Sarajevo and Zagreb on Saturday, lighting candles and laying flowers to pay respects to one of former Yugoslavia's most beloved singers who died of coronavirus.

Djordje Balasevic, 67, who had been appointed goodwill ambassador of the United Nations High Commissionaire for Refugees in 1998, passed away on Friday evening in a hospital in his hometown Novi Sad in northern Serbia.

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