Montenegro Mourns After Gunman Kills At Least 12 People Before Shooting Himself

CETINJE, Montenegro (AP) — Shock and dismay prevailed in Montenegro on Thursday after a gunman fatally shot 12 people, including two children, in a western town before killing himself.

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Four men were killed at the bar, Nastić said. The shooter then moved on to another location where he killed four more people, and then two children at a third site. He then went on to kill two more people at two other locations before eventually shooting himself, Nastić said.

“Further investigation will determine the exact circumstances of the events,” she added.

Šaranović said that the shooter had died while being taken to a hospital in the capital and succumbed from the “severity of his injuries.”

Prime Minister Milojko Spajić said that the government may try to impose a total ban on weapons “because we must ask ourselves after this who should be allowed to have guns in Montenegro.”

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“How can I feel after this?” Popović said. “No one expected it. You can’t even ask anyone anything.”

At least four others were wounded in the shooting rampage in Cetinje on Wednesday that followed a bar brawl, officials said. This was the second such incident in the town in the past three years.

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“Instead of holiday joy … we have been gripped by sadness over the loss of innocent lives,” Montenegro’s President Jakov Milatović said in a post on X.

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