Bosnia: One injured in gun attack on US embassy

According to a foreign news agency witness, a gunman opened fire on the United States embassy in the Bosnian capital Sarajevo on Friday and at least one embassy security guard was wounded.Bosnian state radio reported that the gunman, armed with a Kalashnikov rifle, had been shot by a police sniper after a stand-off. A police spokesman said the man appeared to be wounded but still alive.Footage shows emergency service crews standing around the body of the gunman, though it is unclear if he is dead.Police cordoned off the area in the central business, university and shopping district of the city.A hospital official told Bosnian television one security guard had been admitted with a gunshot wound to the arm.Bosnia is considered a strong ally of the United States. The country was torn apart by war in 1992-95 between its Bosniak (Bosnian Muslim), Croat and Serb communities when socialist Yugoslavia collapsed.Sarajevo is mainly Muslim. The US embassy in Sarajevo closed briefly in March 2002 citing an unspecified threat, but the building has not come under attack before.