Six migrants who took part in the mass brawl in a migrant centre this week were taken over by Bosnia's Service for Foreigners' Affairs, to be extradited to their countries of origin, a police minister in Bosnia's Una-Sana region confirmed for media.
Three police officers were injured and a police car damaged when a clash involving dozens of migrants emerged Tuesday night in a migrant centre in the northwestern Bosnian town of Velika Kladusa.
The incident was reported by officers securing the camp but when the police tried to intervene, the migrants confronted them.
“A larger group of migrants then physically attacked the police officers, attacking them with glass bottles, stones, metal bars and preventing them to do their duty,” said police spokesperson Ale Siljdedic.
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Nermin Kljajic, Minister of Internal Affairs in the Una-Sana Canton, where the centre is situated, said six of the migrants involved in the brawl have been sent for deportation.
“I must say they are not the only ones we will deport, because we’re still following the situation and collecting information. About 100 migrants certainly took part in the fight in and around the facilities. The situation is under control not although some 50 persons are still outside the camp and they are hiding in abandoned buildings,” said the minister.
The migrants who sustained injuries in the fight were hospitalised in Velika Kladusa healthcare centre and Bihac’s cantonal hospital.
More than 600 migrants are accommodated in the facilities near Velika Kladusa and minor accidents occur on a daily basis, according to Red Cross personnel.
“This is definitely an alarm for the competent state institutions to act, because it is not only the safety of the people who live and work here that is in jeopardy but also the safety of residents of the towns in this canton where the temporary reception centres are located,” said Husein Klicic of the Red Cross Una-Sana Canton.
