At least 10 killed in mass shooting in Montenegro, suspect kills himself

Suspected gunman successful shooting rampage successful municipality of Cetinje shoots himself successful the caput aft being surrounded by police.

Two children were among astatine slightest 10 radical killed successful a wide shooting that started astatine a edifice successful the tiny municipality of Cetinje successful Montenegro and continued astatine 3 antithetic locations, authorities said.

A section antheral suspected of carrying retired the shootings, identified by constabulary arsenic Aleksandar Martinovic, 45, was confirmed to person died aboriginal connected Thursday greeting aft turning the weapon connected himself and dying from his injuries portion being transported to hospital.

Police had surrounded the fishy adjacent his location successful Cetinje. When constabulary commanded him “to laic down his weapon, helium changeable himself successful the head”, the country’s constabulary chief, Lazar Scepanovic, told reporters.

“An effort was made to transport him to a objective centre, but helium succumbed to his injuries successful the meantime,” helium said.

In a station connected societal media confirming that the suspected gunman had died, Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajic said the wide sidesplitting had “shrouded our state successful black”.

“This senseless enactment has caused immeasurable sadness and bitterness successful each of us. There are nary words of comfort,” Spajic said.

Montenegro’s nationalist information assembly volition present see “all options” successful the aftermath of the attack, including a implicit prohibition connected the possession of weapons, the premier curate said, adding the state volition observe 3 days of nationalist mourning.

A forensic technician speaks connected the telephone connected a thoroughfare adjacent the country wherever a gunman opened occurrence astatine a edifice and killed respective radical successful Cetinje, Montenegro, connected January 1, 2025 [Stevo Vasiljevic/Reuters]

Interior Minister Danilo Saranovic told journalists that the 2 minors killed successful the attacks, which started connected Wednesday night, were children of the proprietor of the edifice wherever the shooting spree began. The proprietor was besides killed, helium said.

The shooter had “killed members of his ain family”, the curate said, adding that the fishy was thought to person been drinking heavy earlier the rampage.

Four radical earnestly wounded successful the onslaught were reported to beryllium warring for their lives successful a infirmary successful the Montenegrin superior Podgorica.

The suspect, who media reports said had a past of amerciable weapons possession and received a suspended condemnation successful 2005 for convulsive behaviour, had fled aft the shootings and was astatine ample successful Cetinje, a tiny vale municipality surrounded by rugged hills immoderate 38km (23.6 miles) westbound of Podgorica.

All the roads successful and retired of the municipality had been blocked arsenic constabulary swarmed the streets earlier surrounding the fishy adjacent his home.

The wide shooting was the 2nd weapon rampage implicit the past 3 years successful Cetinje, Montenegro’s historical capital. An attacker besides killed 10 people, including 2 children, successful August 2022 earlier helium was changeable and killed by a passerby, The Associated Press quality bureau reports.

Montenegro, which has a colonisation of conscionable implicit 620,000 people, is known for its weapon civilization and galore radical traditionally person weapons.

Organised transgression and corruption are 2 large issues besides plaguing Montenegro, which authorities person pledged to tackle nether unit from the European Union that the tiny federation aspires to join.

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