Sarajevo police use stun grenades, rubber bullets as countrywide riots paralyze Bosnia — RT News

Sarajevo police use stun grenades, rubber bullets as countrywide riots paralyze Bosnia — RT News:

Special forces soldiers have used a water cannon to drive off protesters trying to storm the presidential residency in Bosnian capital Sarajevo, Reuters reports. Demonstrators had set fire to the building and torched police cars stationed around it.

Several cities in the Balkan state are gripped by dissent after a local unemployment rally grew into a nationwide protest - the worst outburst of violence since the regional war ended in 1995.

Earlier, police launched stun grenades and rubber bullets at angry demonstrators, who had been throwing stones and eggs.

 

Protesters stand near a fire set in front of a government building in Tuzla February 7, 2014. (Reuters / Dado Ruvic)