Terrorist attack in Sarajevo (2015)

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The terrorist attack in Sarajevo was on 18th November 2015 by Islamists perpetrated attack with terrorist background in Rajlovac (near the camp Rajlovac ), a suburb of the Herzegovinian Bosnian capital Sarajevo .

procedure

The 34-year-old Enes Omeragić, born in France , shot dead the two military police officers Armin Salkić and Nedeljko Radić with an assault rifle and injured another in a betting shop . The assassin also shot at a bus and injured other people. During his rampage he is said to have recited verses from the Koran and shouted " Allahu Akbar ".

Then Omeragić barricaded himself in his own house in the suburb of Sokolje, about a few kilometers away . After the special police surrounded the property in the night, he blew himself up with a bomb . The prosecutor spoke of an act of terrorism.

Perpetrator

Omeragić was considered a Salafist , according to other sources as a supporter of the Wahhabi movement . He also had a criminal record. Relatives should also be radical. The Bosnian Deputy Defense Minister Emir Suljagic condemned the attack. Islamist extremists have been responsible for at least three other attacks in the country in recent years. When bomb attack on a police station in Bugojno in 2010 died a policeman, the attack on the US Embassy in Sarajevo in 2011, no one was injured in an attack on a police station in Zvornik in April 2015 officer was killed.

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. a b Suspected 'radical Islamist' kills 2 soldiers, injures 3 in Sarajevo, Bosnia . Russia Today . November 19, 2015. Accessed November 21, 2015.
  3. a b Bosnia: Killing of soldiers treated as act of terrorism . B92 . November 19, 2015. Accessed November 21, 2015.
  4. a b c d e f g IS attack in the Balkans? Assassin kills soldiers in Bosnia . n-tv . November 19, 2015. Accessed November 21, 2015.
  5. a b c d e Two soldiers killed in attack in Bosnia . Kurir . November 19, 2015. Accessed November 21, 2015.