Eight arrested in Bosnia after policeman's murder by teen

Sarajevo: Eight people were arrested in Bosnia overnight in connection with the murder of a policeman by a 14 year old, police said Saturday, amid rep...

Sarajevo: Eight people were arrested in Bosnia overnight in connection with the murder of a policeman by a 14-year-old, police said Saturday, amid reports the attacker may have been radicalised.

Weapons and munitions were confiscated, police said, in the raids in Bosanska Krupa, the north-western town where the teenager Thursday evening mortally stabbed an officer and wounded another in a police station before being arrested, and nearby Bihac.

Bosanska Krupa lies 300 kilometres (186 miles) northwest of the Bosnian capital Sarajevo.

"The police discovered and seized in their homes a certain quantity of weapons, ammunition, telephones, computers, external disks, money, as well as papers with texts written in Arabic," said Adnan Beganovic, a spokesman for the police in the Bihac region.

He said all leads were being explored when asked if the police were focussing on the alleged radicalisation of the boy.