Shooting kills 5, injures 20 in northern Serbia
A gunman has opened fire with an automatic rifle at occupants of a café in northern Serbia, leaving five people dead and at least 20 others wounded.
Police said the shooting took place in a village near the city of Zrenjanin, located around 80 kilometers (49.7 miles) north of the capital, Belgrade, at 01:40 a.m. local time on Saturday (2340 GMT on Friday).
According to a police statement, the assailant identified as Z.S. first killed his wife and another woman before randomly shooting at others in the Makijato café.
Visiting the site of the incident, Serbia’s Interior Minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said that police in the vicinity caught the suspect.
Meanwhile, witnesses told Serbia’s state TV that the attacker saw his wife with a group of friends and then went home and returned to the restaurant with a gun.
“It sounded like firecrackers at first,” said one of the witnesses, Svetozar Manojlovic, adding, “Then the guy next to me fell down and others started falling down. It was total chaos.”
Elsewhere in his comments, Stefanovic said the automatic weapon, which was used by the assailant, was illegal.
“This was completely unexpected,” he said. “There were no signs at all, people tell us that he was completely calm and norm.”
The injured were taken to nearby hospitals in Zrenjanin and the city of Novi Sad.
According to Zrenjanin doctors, seven people underwent operation and were in serious condition.
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