Police track down teenage girl filmed throwing live puppies into a river

A girl shown in a video throwing puppies into a fast-flowing river has been traced, police in Bosnia said today.



The teenager, wearing a hooded top, caused worldwide outrage when she was shown online apparently killing six newborn puppies by throwing them into the river one by one.



Police in the central Bosnian town of Bugojno said they had found the girl from leads given by animal protection groups in the country.

MailOnline knows the name of the girl involved but has decided not to publish to protect her safety.

The video appears to show a girl throwing live puppies into a fast-flowing river

The teenage girl kneels down to lift what looks like a live puppy from the bucket

The girl's parents will soon be questioned, police said. Under Bosnian law, people can be fined up to £4,000 for animal cruelty.



Such was the international fury it prompted Transformers movie director Michael Bay to offer a $50,000 (£32,500) reward for the prosecution of the young woman.



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On his website, the director said: 'There is a disturbing video going around the news outlets. It's a video of blonde young woman in a red sweatshirt casually tossing squealing puppies into the fast-moving river one by one.'

He offered the reward for 'information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of the woman in the red sweatshirt and the person who shot this act of cruelty'.

Animals rights group 'Flekice' (Spots) filed a complaint to police claiming the girl seen on the video, originally posted on YouTube, came from the central town of Bugojno.

Another animal rights group - SOS, which is based in Sarajevo - also claimed to have information confirming the location of the girl, who was reportedly filmed by her brother.

Velimir Ivanisevic from the group said he received an email that allegedly identifies her as a teenager from the central Bosnian town of Bugojno.

'We cannot say with 100 per cent certainty that this is true, but we received some other information which leads us to believe that it is,' Ivanisevic said.

Bosnian law requires anyone who kills or injures an animal to pay a fine ranging from €15 to €5,000 (£12 to £4,150) .

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) offered a €1,500 (£1,300) reward earlier this week to help catch the young woman in the film

The video has prompted outrage among internet groups all over the world



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The 44-second video shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually tossing the squealing black-and-white puppies into the river one by one.

The video has been removed from YouTube but niot before it was embedded on a number of other sites.

Several Facebook pages were created dedicated to exposing the girl, who appears to be a teenager.

Users of the image forum 4chan, who recently identified a British woman who dumped a cat into a wheelie bin, have vowed to unmask her.

They had already tracked down bank worker Mary Bale after CCTV of her dumping a cat in a rubbish bin was published online.