Budapest, 25 October 2024 (dpa/MIA) - A teenager has killed a police officer with a knife in Bosnia-Herzegovina.

A second officer was seriously wounded. The attack took place in the small town of Bosanska Krupa in the north-west of the country, near the border with Croatia, the police said on Friday.

The motives of the teenager, born in 2009, are still unclear.

The Bosnian online news portal klix.ba reported that the incident had the characteristics of a terrorist offence, according to a spokesman for the interior ministry in Sarajevo.

The teenager had unexpectedly entered the police station building and stabbed the two police officers with a knife. He was arrested immediately afterwards.

The minister of the interior of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina (FBiH), Ramo Isak, announced an increased police presence on the streets of the town. FBiH is the Bosniak-Croat entity within the state of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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