Talha Öztürk
19 November 2015•Update: 19 November 2015
BELGRADE, Serbia
Bosnian Prime Minister Denis Zvizdic has said that "shooting at soldiers means shooting at the state" after a gunman killed two members of the country’s armed forces in Sarajevo.
Zvizdic's remarks came after today’s Council of Ministers meeting which was held following Wednesday’s bloody attack.
"These things will be sanctioned. Shooting at soldiers means shooting at the state of Bosnia and Herzegovina," said Zvizdic.
He confirmed that Bosnia had raised its security level in response to the attack and said an investigation was ongoing.
"In Bosnia and Herzegovina it is unacceptable that anyone can shoot at uniformed soldiers. This is the reason for this meeting. This is the key message. The level of security will be increased to the highest level," said Zvizdic.
Meanwhile, Boris Grubesic, spokesman for the Prosecutor's Office of Bosnia, said that the murder of two members of the Armed Forces of Bosnia qualified as an act of terrorism.
Two Bosnian soldiers were killed and three civilians were injured late Wednesday when a gunman opened fire near a barracks in Sarajevo.
The man, who was armed with an automatic rifle, later killed himself as police surrounded his home on the city’s outskirts.
Local media identified the two dead men as 26-year-old Armin Salkic and 34-year-old Nedeljko Radic.
In April, Bosnia declared three days’ of mourning after a police officer, Dragan Djuric, was shot dead a police station in the eastern city of Zvornik.
The gunman, Nerdin Ibric, wounded two other police officers before he was shot dead.
Afterwards, Turkey’s then foreign minister, Mevlut Cavusoglu, backed Bosnia in what Ankara called “the fight against terrorism”.
