SARAJEVO, 11 Oct (Hina) - At 1.35 am Friday, a powerful explosive device went off at the entrance door of the Catholic school centre in Bistrik, in the old part of Sarajevo. The explosion caused considerable material damage to the
school building, but there were no casualties, Sarajevo Canton Assistant Interior Minister Svevlad Hofman told reporters.
SARAJEVO, 11 Oct (Hina) - At 1.35 am Friday, a powerful explosive
device went off at the entrance door of the Catholic school centre
in Bistrik, in the old part of Sarajevo.
The explosion caused considerable material damage to the
school building, but there were no casualties, Sarajevo Canton
Assistant Interior Minister Svevlad Hofman told reporters. #L#
The Catholic Press Agency (KTA) stated that the explosion
destroyed the entrance door and shattered windows at the school
centre as well as those at the Church of the Queen of the Rosary and
nearby buildings.
International, federation and canton police visited the site
of the explosion, as did the auxiliary bishop Pero Sudar, whom the
Bishops' Conference of Bosnia-Herzegovina entrusted with education.
KTA reported that police sources said that the device was most
probably a time bomb.
An investigation into the incident is under way.
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