An armed assailant entered a care home for older people in a quiet central Croatian town Monday and opened fire, killing six people and wounding six others, police said. Croatia’s prime minister said the victims were mostly in their 90s. Croatia’s police chief, Nikola Milina, said five people died immediately while one more person died in a hospital. The suspect fled the scene, but the police caught him in a cafe near the facility in the town of Daruvar, he said. The victims were five residents of the care home and one employee, Milina said. The suspect is “under police supervision,” said a statement by the regional police office. Authorities are investigating the motive behind the attack. N1 regional television reported that the shooter was born in 1973 and that he was a former policeman who took part in the 1991-95 war in Croatia. Officials said that one of those killed was his mother, who had lived in the care home for the past 10 years. (…) Police officials said that the assailant used an unregistered gun. There are many weapons kept in private homes in Croatia after the bloody breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s.
via ap: Assailant kills 6 people and wounds 6 others at a care home in central Croatia, officials say
siehe auch: Six killed after gunman opens fire in Croatian care home, local media reports. At least six people died after a gunman entered a home for the elderly in Croatia on Monday and started shooting, according to the country’s public broadcaster. A man with a firearm entered a private home for the elderly in the town of Daruvar – about 75 miles east of the capital Zagreb – and opened fire at those who were present, Croatian Radiotelevision (HRT) reported. Six people were also injured during the shooting, it said, quoting police. Five of those killed were residents of the home and one person was an employee, Croatian police chief Nikola Milina told reporters from Daruvar, HRT reported. The gunman had had previous encounters with authorities, was a member of a military police unit, and had a short firearm that hadn’t been registered, Milina said, adding it is too early to talk about a motive. Five of the victims died immediately, according to HRT. State news agency HINA has reported that some of those injured were receiving medical assistance in the hours after the shooting.