Twelve people, including two children, were killed by an armed man who started a shooting late Wednesday in a restaurant in southern Montenegro, a Montenegrin prosecutor said Thursday. A three-day national mourning was declared.
‘Twelve people were killed, including two children,’ prosecutor Andrijana Nastic told the media, with previous reports indicating at least ten deaths. The perpetrator of the shooting committed suicide by shooting himself in the head while he was surrounded by police.
The shooting began around 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday in the village of Bajice, near the town of Cetinje, according to police.
The victims were killed in five different locations, the first four inside the restaurant, the prosecutor said.
“Every location was inspected and evidence was collected,” she said.
“The work of prosecutors and police is ongoing to determine the circumstances in which this took place,” she added.
Four people were also seriously injured and taken to hospital in the capital, Podgorica.
The lives of three of them were still in danger, Health Minister Vojislav Simun said.
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The police ruled out the hypothesis of a ‘clash between organized criminal groups’ and specified that the weapons used were illegal.
Earlier, police chief Lazar Scepanovic said the murderer, aged 45, ‘had argued with a customer with whom he had spent a large part of the day, and while he had been drinking large quantities of alcohol, went home and took a weapon’.
The government declared a three-day national mourning starting Thursday.
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