State prosecutors take over investigation into Sarajevo killings

Sarajevo, 19 November 2015 (MIA) - The investigation into the killing of two members of Bosnia and Herzegovina's army has been taken over by the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor because there are indications that the case could be related to terrorism, Boris Grubesic of the Office of the Chief State Prosecutor said in Sarajevo on Thursday, Hina reports.

The Office of the Chief State Prosecutor, which prosecutes the most severe criminal cases, has taken over the case from the Sarajevo Canton Prosecutor's Office which started investigating the crime immediately after it was committed on Wednesday night.

The attacker, identified as 34-year-old Enes Omeragic, burst into a betting booth in Sarajevo's suburb of Rajlovac and opened fire from a machine-gun, killing soldiers Armin Salkic, aged 26, and Nedeljko Radic, aged 34, who were there.

The attacker then fled the scene but the police located him in a house in the nearby neighbourhood of Sokolje where he lived and surrounded the house. Faced with his inevitable arrest, Omeragic committed suicide by activating a bomb.

The attacker's motives are still being speculated about, and among the many reports is one saying that he had lately become close to radical Islamists and his attack is believed to be an act of terrorism.

The Office of the Chief State Prosecutor is being assisted in the investigation by the State Agency for Investigation and Protection (SIPA), whose spokeswoman Kristina Jozic confirmed that investigators were focused on the possible terrorist nature of the attack.

"The attack on the two soldiers at Rajlovac has elements of a terrorist act," she said.



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