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Armed man shoots two soldiers dead in Bosnian capital

Bosnian military personnel are seen working with police during an investigation in Sarajevo, Bosnia, November 19, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

A shooting attack by a Salafi individual near the Bosnian capital of Sarajevo has killed two soldiers and injured several other people.

In a statement issued on Thursday, the Bosnian army said two of its soldiers were killed and another slightly wounded after a gunman armed with an automatic rifle attacked a shop and a public bus parked outside near an army barracks in Rajlovac, a suburb of Sarajevo, early in the morning of the same day.

The bus driver and two other passengers also sustained injures in the shooting, according to authorities.

The shooter, whose motives for the attack were still not clear, ended up killing himself with explosives after police chased him to his house.

Bullet holes are seen in glass on a bus, which came under attack by a gunman, in Sarajevo, Bosnia, November 19, 2015. (Photo by AFP)

The attacker was identified by Bosnian media as an adherent of the ultra-conservative Salafi movement.

‘An attack on the state’

Bosnian authorities refused to say whether the attack was an act of terrorism as an investigation into the matter was still ongoing.

However, Bosnian Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic called the deadly shooting “an attack on the state” during an emergency government meeting over the assault on Thursday.

The army has beefed up security in military locations throughout the country following the emergency meeting.

Earlier this month, the government of Bosnia said in a report that 94 Bosnians have joined the Takfiri militant groups operating in Syria. At least 26 of them have died there, but according to the report, 56 of them have returned home.

On Friday night, a string of shooting and bombing attacks by Daesh members in the French capital of Paris killed at least 129 people and injured 352 others.


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