Police shot dead an armed migrant in the Serbian part of Bosnia on Tuesday night after he barricaded himself in a house, fired shots and threw a hand grenade from there.
The incident took place in the village of Zovi Do, 50 kilometres southeast of Mostar. Video from a private Bosnian Serb television channel showed police officers asking the man in English to give up. He then responded that they should get out of here. He had previously locked himself in an empty house.
Sheep stolen
The man fired shots from an automatic rifle and threw a hand grenade when someone tried to approach the house. He may have had a fight with the villagers earlier, because he had allegedly stolen a sheep.
Police shot the armed migrant. No one else was injured, it was said. Where the man came from was initially unclear. A branch of the so-called Balkan route, which migrants from Turkey use to try to reach Western Europe, runs through Bosnia-Herzegovina.
Nearly 2,000 migrants in Bosnia
According to the UN refugee agency UNHCR, nearly 2,000 refugees and migrants were staying in asylum centres in Bosnia at the end of July. However, many do not register and try to pass through their EU neighbour Croatia. In most cases, violent conflicts take place between each other, rather than attacks on the local population.
Source: Krone
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