A gunman entered a nursing home in northwestern Croatia on Monday (22), killing five people, including his mother, and wounding six others, a government minister said.
One of the injured later died in hospital, bringing the death toll to six, while four remain in critical condition.
One of the victims was an employee at a nursing home, Marin Piletic, Minister of Labor, Pensions, Family and Social Policy, told reporters.
“According to the information we have, the killer’s mother had been in the nursing home for 10 years,” Piletic said.
Authorities gave no motive for the attack.
Croatian media reported that the gunman, born in 1973, is a war veteran.
“We are shocked,” Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told reporters in Split.
“This is truly a monstrous act of murder of a group of people, the mother and other elderly people who were there… We condemn this crime.”
The killer fled the scene but was arrested by police, news portal N1 reported.
Source: CNN Brasil
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