SARAJEVO: Bosnian authorities said Tuesday two suspected members of a militant movement have been charged for allegedly preparing “terrorist attacks” on police and the intelligence agency.
Maksim Bozic and Edin Hastor are accused of “acquiring weapons and explosive devices and... preparing terrorist attacks on the building of the agency of investigation and protection (SIPA) and interior ministry premises,” the state prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
The two, born in Bosnia in 1990 and 1972 respectively, were arrested in April when police seized grenades, ammunition, automatic rifles, combat vests and flags looking like the Daesh insignia.
“During the investigation evidence were found about suspects’ illegal activities aimed at preparing and executing a terrorist act,” the statement added.
In November 2015 a man killed two members of Bosnia’s armed forces with automatic weapons near a barracks in Sarajevo before blowing himself up. Officials said the attacker was linked to Islamist circles and committed a terrorist act.
A year before a 24-year-old Bosnian Islamist killed a policeman and injured two others when he attacked a police station in the eastern city of Zvornik with a shotgun, before being shot.
About 1,000 people from the Balkans joined militant ranks to fight in Syria and Iraq since 2012, but the flow has dried up with more than 200 killed on the frontline.
Another 300 or so have returned to the Balkan region.
Muslims make up about 40 percent of Bosnia’s 3.8 million population while the rest of the Balkan country’s population is mostly Serbian Orthodox or Catholic.
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Bosnia charges two militants with planning attacks
Bosnia charges two militants with planning attacks
- Maksim Bozic and Edin Hastor are accused of “acquiring weapons and explosive devices"
Interoceanic Train derails in southern Mexico, killing at least 13 and injuring dozens
- he Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz went off the rails Sunday as it passed a curve near the town of Nizanda
- Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum says 13 people died and another 98 people were injured when a train derailed
MEXICO CITY: Officials said a train accident in southern Mexico killed at least 13 people and injured dozens, halting traffic along a rail line connecting the Pacific Ocean with the Gulf of Mexico.
The Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz went off the rails Sunday as it passed a curve near the town of Nizanda.
“The Mexican Navy has informed me that, tragically, 13 people died in the Interoceanic Train accident,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum posted on X, adding that 98 people are injured, five of them seriously.
She said she instructed the secretary of the navy and the undersecretary of human rights of the Ministry of the Interior to travel to the site and personally assist the families.
In a message on X Sunday, Oaxaca state Gov. Salomon Jara said several government agencies had reached the site of the accident to assist the injured.
Officials said that 241 passengers and nine crew members were on the train when the accident occurred.
The Interoceanic Train was inaugurated in 2023 by then President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The rail service is part of a broader push to boost train travel in southern Mexico, and develop infrastructure along the isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow stretch of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mexican government plans to turn the isthmus into a strategic corridor for international trade, with ports and rail lines that can connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Interoceanic train currently runs from the port of Salina Cruz on the Pacific Ocean to Coatzacoalcos, covering a distance of approximately 180 miles (290 kilometers).
The Interoceanic Train linking the states of Oaxaca and Veracruz went off the rails Sunday as it passed a curve near the town of Nizanda.
“The Mexican Navy has informed me that, tragically, 13 people died in the Interoceanic Train accident,” Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum posted on X, adding that 98 people are injured, five of them seriously.
She said she instructed the secretary of the navy and the undersecretary of human rights of the Ministry of the Interior to travel to the site and personally assist the families.
In a message on X Sunday, Oaxaca state Gov. Salomon Jara said several government agencies had reached the site of the accident to assist the injured.
Officials said that 241 passengers and nine crew members were on the train when the accident occurred.
The Interoceanic Train was inaugurated in 2023 by then President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador. The rail service is part of a broader push to boost train travel in southern Mexico, and develop infrastructure along the isthmus of Tehuantepec, a narrow stretch of land between the Pacific Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mexican government plans to turn the isthmus into a strategic corridor for international trade, with ports and rail lines that can connect the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans. The Interoceanic train currently runs from the port of Salina Cruz on the Pacific Ocean to Coatzacoalcos, covering a distance of approximately 180 miles (290 kilometers).
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