
A gunman opened fire in a nursing home in Croatia earlier today, killing at least five people, state media reported, in a rare instance of gun violence in the Balkan country.
State broadcaster HRT said an unidentified gunman entered a nursing home in Daruvar -some 130 kilometres (80 miles) east of Zagreb – and opened fire
The newsmen said at least five were killed and several others wounded during the shooting, while the alleged suspect then fled but was later arrested by police.
Recall that Croatia fought a war of independence during the breakup of Yugoslavia from 1991 to 1995. While Shootings in the Balkan country is rare.
Last year in neighboring Serbia, the country was rocked by back-to-back mass shootings, including a massacre at a school in the capital in Belgrade in which 10 people were killed.