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Summary A man opened fire with an automatic weapon outside the U.S. Embassy in Bosnia on Friday.
The man injured at least one police officer guarding the embassy before police surrounded him. After a 30-minute standoff, the sound of a single shot echoed and the shooter slumped to the ground. According to authorities the man was targeting the building in a terrorist attack.Police arrested the wounded man and took him away in an ambulance as pedestrians watched from behind buildings and vehicles. Sarajevo police spokesman Irfan Nefic said the man was being treated at a hospital. The U.S. Embassy said none of its employees was injured.Bakir Izetbegovic, one of Bosnias three presidents, issued a statement condemning the terrorist attack on the embassy of the United States in Bosnia-Herzegovina.The United States is a proven friend of Bosnia-Herzegovina. Its government and its people supported us in the most difficult moments in our history and nobody has the right to jeopardize our relations, he said.The gunman wore a beard and was dressed in an outfit typical for followers of the conservative Wahabi branch of Islam.Bosnian TV identified the shooter as Mevlid Jasarevic, from Novi Pazar, Serbia. It said he is a Wahabi follower, but did not cite its sources.
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