Police probe deadly shooting rampage in western Montenegro

A person went on a capturing rampage within the streets of Cetinje in western Montenegro on Friday, killing 10 folks, together with two kids, earlier than being shot lifeless by a passerby, officers said.

Montenegrin police chief Zoran Brdjanin said in a video assertion shared with media that attacker was a 34-year-old man he recognized solely by his initials, V.B.

Brdjanin said the person used a searching rifle to first shoot to loss of life two kids ages 8 and 11 and their mom, who lived as tenants within the attacker’s home in Cetinje’s Medovina neighbourhood.

The shooter then walked into the road and randomly shot 13 extra folks, seven of them fatally, the chief said.

“For the time being, it’s unclear what provoked V.B. to commit this atrocious act,” Brdjanin said.

‘An unprecedented tragedy’

Andrijana Nastic, the prosecutor co-ordinating the crime scene investigation, instructed journalists that the gunman was killed by a passerby and {that a} police officer was among the many wounded.

She said 9 of these killed died on the scene and two died at a hospital the place they had been taken for surgical procedure.

Cetinje, the seat of Montenegro’s former royal authorities, is 36 kilometres west of Podogrica, the present capital of the small Balkan nation.

Montenegrin Prime Minister Dritan Abazovic wrote on his Telegram channel that the incident was “an unprecedented tragedy” and urged the nation “to be, of their ideas, with the households of the harmless victims, their relations, associates and all of the folks of Cetinje.”

Montenegrin President Milo Djukanovic said on Twitter that he was “deeply moved by the information of the horrible tragedy” in Cetinje, calling for “solidarity” with the households who misplaced family members within the incident.