Bosnian jihadi suspects seized with weapons, IS flag

Authorities in Sarajevo say four suspected Bosnian jihadists are in custody following their arrest and the seizure of a cache of weapons along with an Islamic State flag.

One of the four, 22-year-old Senad Kostac, was detained in Turkey on the road to Syria and handed over to Bosnian authorities, reads a prosecutor’s statement.

The other three, aged 26, 27 and 55, were arrested in Kostac’s village of Velika Kladusa in northwestern Bosnia, accused of “trying to join a foreign paramilitary unit”.

During a police raid, several hand grenades, landmines, a machine gun, various bullets and a flag of the Islamic State group were seized.

According to local media, the brother of one of the three arrested in Velika Kladusa died in January last year at the Syrian front.

— AFP