Gunman kills 12 in Montenegro small-town rampage


Police members stand on a checkpoint near where a gunman opened fire at a restaurant and killed several people in Cetinje, Montenegro, January 1, 2025. REUTERS/Stevo Vasiljevic

CETINJE, Montenegro (Reuters) -A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before turning his gun on himself early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the Balkan nation's worst mass killings.

The attacker, named by police as 45-year-old Aco Martinovic, initially shot dead four people at a restaurant in Cetinje on Wednesday afternoon after an altercation.

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