(21 Aug 2024)
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Sanski Most, Bosnia – 21 August 2024
1. Police standing in front of the school, behind crime scene tape
2. Pan from officers to school building
3. Officer behind tape
4. Pan from tape to school building
5. Pan from people standing to school building
6. Vehicle with coffins in baggage
7. School behind tape
STORYLINE:
A school employee shot and killed three people Wednesday in a town in northwestern Bosnia, police said. The shooter was severely injured after trying to kill himself.
The shooting took place around 10 a.m. local time at a secondary school in Sanski Most, about 300 kilometers (180 miles) northwest of Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, said regional police spokesman Adnan Beganovic.
Beganovic told The Associated Press that the man used a “military weapon, an automatic rifle."
The attacker then attempted to kill himself and is in serious condition in a hospital in nearby Banja Luka.
The victims included the school principal, a secretary and a teacher, said Beganovic.
Regional N1 television reported that the man had a dispute with school management. The Klix news portal said that an English language teacher was among the victims.
Bosnian schools are closed for the summer holiday, but Beganovic said there were people in the school as repeat examinations were underway.
The Balkan region is awash with small arms and weapons since the 1990s wars, part of the breakup of Yugoslavia, particularly in Bosnia, a country of about 3.5 million people.
According to a 2010 study by the United Nations Development Program, there were about 750,000 weapons in illegal possession in Bosnia.
Last month, a veteran entered a care home for older people in a quiet central town in Croatia and opened fire, killing six people and wounding six others.
Last May in Serbia, a teenager opened fire at a school with his father’s guns, killing nine children and a school guard, while a day later a 20-year-old shooter killed nine people and wounded 12 in a rampage outside Belgrade, the capital.
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