Federal Police Directorate

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.

A shooting in the capital of Bosnia and Herzegovina on Wednesday night claimed the lives of two Bosnian soldiers and left five other people injured.

According to police, the two servicemen were shot in a betting shop in the suburb of Rajlovac, the BalkanInsight informs.

Police in Bosnia's Canton of Sarajevo said a man killed two members of the Bosnian Army inside a betting shop in the suburb of Rajlovac at around 7:30 pm.

The reasons for the attack are unknown but television N1 reported that the attacker shouted the Islamist slogan "Allahu Akbar" before shooting the soldiers. This report has not been confirmed.