Anti-Government Protests Rocking Bosnia
Buildings set on fire on third day of unrest
Protesters across Bosnia set fire to government buildings and fought with riot police on Friday as long-simmering anger over lack of jobs and political inertia fuelled a third day of the worst civil unrest in Bosnia since a 1992-95 war.
Protests remained largely contained to the Croat-Muslim Bosniak half of Bosnia but were gaining in intensity.
Tear gas and smoke blanketed downtown Sarajevo, where police fired rubber bullets on several thousand protesters who set fire to the headquarters of the cantonal government and to a section of the country's presidency building.
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