Sarajevo  - Bosnian police arrested on Tuesday three men including two senior police officials suspected of forging documents and aiding war crimes suspects.

The men were arrested in north-eastern town of Bijeljina, one of the strongholds the extreme Serbian nationalists.

Two other senior policemen were brought in for questioning but they are not arrested. The investigation is ongoing and no names were released yet, Bosnia's prosecutors office said in a statement.

Tuesday's action is a part of the 2008 operation of identifying and detaining number of people suspected of counterfeiting documents and helping persons indicted by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia. (dpa)