CORRECTED - Slovenia opens first segment of Drazenci-Gruskovje motorway section

Also, in the lead please read "Slovenia has inaugurated the first segment of a 13 km motorway section connecting Drazenci, in the north-east of the country, with Gruskovje, on the border with Croatia, the government said".

Please also read "Bosnia's Euro Asfalt is in charge of construction of the second segment of the Drazenci-Gruskovje stretch of the motorway".

A corrected version follows:

Slovenia has inaugurated the first segment of a 13 km motorway section connecting Drazenci, in the north-east of the country, with Gruskovje, on the border with Croatia, the government said.

The next section of the motorway, stretching from Slovenia's eastern municipality of Podlehnik to Gruskovje, will be completed in autumn 2018, the government said quoted prime minister Miro Cerar as saying on Wednesday.

Bosnia's Euro Asfalt is in charge of construction the second segment of the Drazenci-Gruskovje stretch of the motorway.

When completed, the motorway will connects Sentilj, on the border with Austria, via Pesnica and Slivnica, to Gruskovje.

The first section of the motorway, Slivnica-Drazenci, was opened in 2009, while the entire motorway will be completed with the construction of the Podlehnik-Gruskovje section.