Eleven dead in mass shooting in Montenegro, state prosecutor says


Police forensic team inspect the house where a gunman started a mass shooting in which 12 people, including the gunman, were killed, according to local media reports, in Cetinje, Montenegro August 12, 2022. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic

CETINJE, Montenegro (Reuters) -Eleven people, including two children and a gunman, were killed in a mass shooting in Montenegro on Friday, and six others were injured, a state prosecutor told Vijesti TV after an initial investigation of the crime scene.

Montenegro Police director Zoran Brdjanin said that around 3.30 p.m.(1330 GMT) a 34-year old man with a hunting rifle shot dead two siblings, one 8 years old and another 11 years old, and injured their mother who died later in the afternoon in a medical facility.

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