Victims are workers
Three workers at a high school in the western Bosnian town of Sanski Mostwere killed and one seriously wounded when a man who also worked at the school opened fire on Wednesday, local media reported, according to Reuters.
Police were notified at around 10:15 (11:15 local time Greek time) about a man who opened fire “with a military weapon, an automatic rifle,” said local police spokesman Adnan Beganovic.
“He tried to kill himself and was seriously injured,” Beganovic noted, while adding that the assailant has been taken to a hospital in Banja Luka.
The police have launched an investigation into the incident, while they have not commented the motive of the perpetrator.
The television network N1 TV – quoting an eyewitness – reported that a school superintendent, against whom the management of the high school had taken disciplinary measures, sought out specific people and shot them.< /p>
The incident occurred while a meeting was being held at the school in view of its reopening for the new school year. There were no students in the building.
Incidents of mass shootings are relatively rare in the Balkans.
In July a war veteran in neighboring Croatia killed five people, including his mother, in a nursing home and wounded six others.
The most recent school shooting incident in the Balkans occurred in May 2023 in Belgrade when a teenager killed ten people, including nine classmates of.
