High security for Bosnian mosque inauguration

Several thousand Muslims in Bosnia-Hercegovina are taking part in a ceremony in the northern town of Gradiska to mark the reopening of a mosque destroyed during the civil war.

It's the first mosque to have been rebuilt in Gradiska, which is in Bosnian-Serb controlled territory.

A large force of police has been deployed to cover the event following anti-Muslim violence at two similar ceremonies in Bosnian-Serb areas in May.

All ten mosques in Gradiska were destroyed by ethnic Serbs during the Bosnian fighting; rebuilding work on this first one, which was more than three-hundred years old, began last August.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service

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