ZAGREB, 18 July, 2021 - Croatian journalist and long-standing Rome and Vatican correspondent Silvije Tomašević, 71, has died from a grave illness, the Croatian Journalists' Association (HND) reported on Sunday.

Tomašević, born in Zagreb on 6 November 1949, started his journalistic career in 1970 in the Večernji List daily. He worked for the print and electronic media. He was a correspondent from Italy for many media outlets in Croatia, including the Croatian national news agency Hina.

Tomašević also collaborated with the BBC and the Deutsche Welle.

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