Sarajevo - Bosnian police arrested two people on Tuesday after a suspected Islamist gunman attacked a police station, killing one officer and wounding two others.
Shouting "Allahu Akbar" (God is greatest), the attacker opened fire Monday evening on the station in the eastern town of Zvornik before being killed in a shootout with police.
Bosnian police were on high alert for further attacks, with elite units deployed to Zvornik, as media reports spoke of a possible link to arrests in Australia over an Anzac Day plot.
Officials said the assailant, identified as 24-year-old Nerdin Ibric, was believed to have links to the hardline Islamist Wahhabi movement.
Intelligence services last week received information about a planned attack, but no details of when and where it would take place, Security Minister Dragan Mektic told reporters.
"We now need to confirm if there is a link between that information and this event," he said.
The first suspect arrested Tuesday, identified only as A.F.H., came from the same village as the attacker, near Zvornik in Republika Srpska, the Serb-run part of Bosnia, local Interior Minister Dragan Lukac said.
"This is a person who had been previously interrogated in connection with departures to fight in Syria and also with the Wahhabi movement," Lukac was quoted by local radio as saying.
The second suspect was identified as K.M. from the northeastern town of Kalesija, police said, but gave no further details.
Private television TV1 said the first suspect had been in Syria last year and was briefly arrested in September as part of a probe into extremist groups. He had close ties to Ibric, it said.
Some 150 Bosnians are believed to have joined jihadist groups fighting in Iraq and Syria, with 50 others believed to have already returned to Bosnia from Middle East battlefields, according to the intelligence services.
AFP
