Zvornik police station shooting

BELGRADE - Serbia will help Republika Srpska (RS) fight terrorism and fundamentalism, Serbian President Tomislav Nikolic said after a meeting he had with RS President Milorad Dodik in Belgrade on Wednesday.

Tomislav Nikolic, the Serbian President, said that Bosnia's mainly Serbian entity, Republika Srpska, was unable to fight terrorism on its own, which is why Serbia felt obliged to give it aid.

Montenegrin Foreign Minister Igor Luksic on Tuesday said the terrorist attack in Zvornik in eastern Bosnia posed a threat to ethnic relations in the region and to the stability of the Western Balkans.

He condemned the attack on the police station in Zvornik on Monday, which left one police officer killed and and two others wounded.

Bosnia's two entities, the Serb-dominated Republika Srpska and the mainly Bosniak and Croat Federation entity, marked the day of mourning on Wednesday for the victim of Monday's terrorist attack in the eastern town of Zvornik.

A policeman, Dragan Djuric, was killed by a gunman and two other policemen were wounded.

BANJA LUKA - The president and vice-president of Republika Srpska (RS), Milorad Dodik and Ramiz Salkic respectively, condemned together on Tuesday the terrorist attack in Zvornik that left one policeman dead and two wounded, and called for peace and tolerance among citizens.

Islamist killed a police officer and yelled: "Allah is great"

Nerdin Ibric came in front of police station in Zvornik last night in19.15, entered inside and started shooting from a shotgun. He was yelling "Allah is great"!

One police officer is dead and two have been left wounded after an alleged Islamist attack in Zvornik, northeastern Bosnia-Herzegovina.

The gunman, identified as Nerdin Ibric, parked his car by the police station, got out and opened fire shouting "Allahu Akbar", according to BalkanInsight.

Ibric was also killed in the shootout with police that followed.

Man detained in connection to attack "returned from Syria"

A man detained in the wake of the terrorist attack in Zvornik, eastern Bosnia-Herzegovina, last year "returned from Syria," the local media are reporting.

The President of Bosnia's Serb-dominated entity, Milorad Dodik, said his entity may withdraw from Bosnia's state-level security apparatus following an attack on a police station in the east of the country.
 
"Republika Srpska was shot at and we have right to defend ourselves, and we will defend ourselves," Dodik said.
 

ZVORNIK - The streets of Zvornik, Republika Srpska, were calm on Tuesday morning, but with a noticeably increased police presence, Klix.ba news portal reported.

More police personnel has been deployed to guard the police station in which one officer was killed and two wounded late Monday.