A gunman opened fire at a restaurant in Montenegro, killing 12 people, including two children. The suspect later died in a shootout with police.
A police officer walks by the crime scene in Cetinje, Montenegro , on January 2, 2025, after a gunman went on a rampage after opening fire at a village restaurant, killing 12 people including two children. Montenegro began three days of national mourning on January 2, 2025 after a gunman went on a rampage after opening fire at a village restaurant, killing 12 people including two children.
Montenegro has declared a three-day period of national mourning after a gunman went on a rampage, killing 12 people including two children.The gunman died after shooting himself in the head when he was surrounded following an hours-long manhunt, police said early on Thursday. The killing spree started around 5:30 pm (1630 GMT) on Wednesday at a restaurant in Bajice, a village near the southern town of Cetinje, according to police. 'Twelve people were killed, of whom two were children,' prosecutor Andrijana Nastic told reporters in Cetinje. The victims were killed at five different locations, with the first four in the restaurant, the prosecutor said.Four people were also seriously injured and transported to a hospital in the capital, Podgorica. On Thursday, all four were at an intensive care unit and their lives were in danger, a hospital statement said.'To kill children ... is completely senseless. That is not a crime, it is something more than that,' pensioner Danilo Zecevic told AFP in Cetinje. The streets of Cetinje and Bajice were deserted on Thursday morning, and a police patrol was stationed in front of the gunman's house at the entry to the village, according to an AFP photographer. Podgorica mayor Sasa Mujovic said that candles would be lit for the victims at the capital's main square on Thursday evening. According to police chief Lazar Scepanovic, the suspect'had consumed alcoholic beverages all day long' before an altercation between him and another restaurant guest
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