Incident at reception centre for migrants leaves one dead

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One migrant died and one was injured in a clash at the migrant reception centre 'Vucjak' in the northwestern Bosnia on Wednesday night, the cantonal prosecutor's office in Bihac confirmed.

“The incident occurred last night and the injured migrant, who is the suspected murderer, was hospitalised at the Cantonal Hospital ‘Dr. Irfan Ljubijankic’ in Bihac,” Irena Marjanovic, spokesperson for the Prosecutor's Office of the Una-Sana Canton told media.

According to the police report, the migrants confronted each other at 4 a.m., at one of the tents inside the camp, which resulted in the death of one of them.

Marjanovic said that the suspect will be subjected to the measures prescribed by law once his treatment at the hospital is over.

This was the second incident involving migrants that were recorded over the past two days.

On Wednesday, a group of migrants were reported for attacking a police officer at the central railway station in Sarajevo.

A spokesperson for the Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Interior, Mirza Hadziabdic, said that the police found a knife with the attacker and he was put under arrest.

Bosnian Border Police have recently warned that the country might experience a new influx of migrants if the problem with the insufficient number of officers to protect the borders is not solved soon.

“15 percent of the officers cannot do the control of the border area. That would mean one officer on 30 kilometres of the border and European standards say that one officer should supervise the one-kilometre area,” explained Sanela Dujkovic, the Spokesperson for Bosnian Border Police.

To fully cover the border with Serbia, the direction where the migrants mostly come from, the Border Police need 1,000 officers.

Bosnia has been struggling with this problem for the second year after thousands of illegal migrants from various African and Asian countries took a route through the country to reach their final destinations mostly in western Europe.

But, as Croatia keeps its border closed for illegal migrants, they are stranded in the areas close to the Bosnian border with that country.

International organisations have provided shelter in several temporary migrant centres in the northwestern region Una-Sana Canton but their capacities cannot serve the dramatically increasing number of incoming foreigners.