Bosnia rocked by third day of anti-government unrest

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By Dado Ruvic and Maja Zuvela TUZLA/SARAJEVO, Bosnia (Reuters) - 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. 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. In the town of Tuzla, once the industrial heart of northern Bosnia, protests over factory closures again turned violent.




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