Bosnia Investigates Police Station Blast

The prosecution launched an investigation after the bomb was thrown at the police station in Zavidovici, a small town in central Bosnia, early on Tuesday at 15 minutes past midnight - the latest in a recent series of violent incidents in the country.

"The state prosecution is currently investigating the explosion, together with SIPA [State Investigation and Protection Agency], the Federal Police Directorate and the Ministry of the Interior of the Zenica-Doboj canton, in order to gather some evidence, see if this attack represents an act of terrorism, and establish the identity of those who did it," Aldina Ahmic, spokesperson for the local police in the Zenica-Doboj canton, told BIRN.

Ahmic said no one was injured and only minor damage was caused. She also said that some parts of another explosive device had been found near the police station on Monday.

The prosecution confirmed that an investigation was under way but did not say whether it was considering the possibility that it had been a terrorist attack.

The blast in Zavidovici came after a man shot dead two Bosnian soldiers in Sarajevo last Wednesday in what the authorities described as a terrorist attack. The gunman, whose relative is linked to radical Islamic groups, later committed suicide.

On Friday, local media also reported that a firecracker had been thrown in Mostar at the car of Ante Jelec, a Bosnian Army general.

However local police said that there was no proof that Jelec was the target.

"The firecracker was thrown outside a tunnel and there was no car in the street in that precise moment. General Jelec's car simply drove through the smoke caused by the explosion, and the person who did it had no way of knowing whose car it was," Maja Cisic from the...