Bosnia: Policeman killed in "terrorist" attack on station

Bosnia: Policeman killed in "terrorist" attack on station

Zvornik -- A policeman has been killed and two others wounded in an attack on a police station in Zvornik, in the Serb entity (RS) of Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The attacker, Nerdin Ibric (24), from the village of Sapno near Zvornik, entered the station a little after 19:00 CET on Monday armed with two rifles and a pistol, and opened fire.

According to the Fena news agency, he shouted, "Allahu Akbar!"

The assailant shot and killed officer Dragan Djuric at the door and managed to injure Stevo Milovanovic and Zeljko Gajic before he was himself shot and killed as other policemen opened fire.

RS Interior Minister Dragan Lukac has confirmed the identity of the attacker, saying that he drove up to the station, choosing to enter the building during shift change, "knowing there would be the greatest number of policemen at that point."

Lukac has qualified the incident as a terrorist attack.

Lukac, who this evening arrived in Zvornik, also said that the attack "could be the start of much worse happenings in Bosnia-Herzegovina."

The Serb Republic (RS) president Milorad Dodik has been quoted as saying that the incident showed that the Serb entity "cannot count on intelligence sources from Bosnia-Herzegovina."

The website of the Banja Luka-based daily Nezavisne reported earlier that "a member of the (radical Muslim) Wahabi movement drove himself to the Public Safety Station in Zvornik, and when he was told he cannot park there, started to shoot."

According to the same website, a large number of citizens gathered in front of the General Hospital in Zvornik inquiring about the condition of the wounded policemen.

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