Armed assailant kills several people in mass shooting in Montenegro
In southern Montenegro, near Cetinje, a gunman killed 10 people, including two minors and their restaurant-owner parent, Interior Minister Danilo Saranovic confirmed. The victims also included the assailant's family members.
At least 10 people, including two children, were killed by a gunman who launched a shooting spree that started in a village restaurant near the southern Montenegro city of Cetinje, police said.
Authorities launched a manhunt for the suspect, and when he was surrounded, he "shot himself in the head", police chief Lazar Scepanovic told reporters.
"An attempt was made to transport him to a clinical centre but he succumbed to his injuries in the meantime," Scepanovic said.
The shooter had killed at least 10 people, two of whom were minors, Interior Minister Danilo Saranovic said earlier, adding that he had also "killed members of his own family".
According to police, the children were aged 10 and 13.
"A terrible tragedy has struck all of us in Cetinje, in the village of Bajice," Prime Minister Milojko Spajic told state broadcaster RTCG.
Four people seriously wounded in the attack were fighting for their lives in hospital in the capital Podgorica, Spajic said.
The government declared three days of national mourning from Thursday.
Police had intially said that the killings took place in a restaurant in Bajice. But police chief Scepanovic later told reporters that people were killed at four different locations.
The suspect had "consumed alcoholic beverages all day" before the incident between him and another restaurant guest, said Scepanovic.
(AFP)
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