SARAJEVO?Bosnian police on Friday said they had tracked down a Bosnian girl who sparked worldwide outrage when she was seen on video throwing half a dozen puppies into a river.

The girl who appeared to be in her teens lives in the central town of Bugojno, police spokesman Sefir Barucija was quoted by SRNA news agency as saying, but officers did not plan to reveal her identity publicly.

Under Bosnian law a person who kills or tortures animals is punishable only with fines ranging from 15 to 5,000 euros ($19 to $6,400).

If the girl was found guilty and fined it would be the first such case in Bosnia.

Local media reported that the girl's grandmother had told her to throw the three-day-old puppies into the river.

The girl believed that throwing puppies into river was "the most merciful" way to get rid of them, the reports said.

The 44-second video shows a blonde girl in a red sweatshirt casually taking the squealing black-and-white puppies out of a white bucket and tossing them into the fast-moving river one by one.

The video was removed from YouTube but several Facebook pages have appeared dedicated to exposing the girl.