Three employees of a high school in the western Bosnia-Herzegovina town of Sanski Most were killed on Wednesday when a school employee shot them and then tried to kill himself, police said. Police received a call at 10:15 a.m. that a man had opened fire at the school with an automatic rifle, Una-sana canton police spokesman Adnan Beganovic said. The shooter killed the school’s director, secretary and a teacher. “He tried to commit suicide and was seriously injured,” Beganovic said, adding that the suspect was rushed to the nearby city of Banja Luka.
The school had not yet reopened after the summer break, so no children were involved. Local media reported that the suspect worked as a janitor, had a history of disagreements with management and was under disciplinary proceedings. Reuters could not immediately verify that report.
The Western Balkans are rife with guns left in private hands after the wars of the 1990s. In July, a war veteran from neighbouring Croatia shot five people, including his mother, in a nursing home and wounded six others. And in May last year, there were two shootings in Serbia. In the first, a 13-year-old student shot dead eight classmates and a security guard at a school in Belgrade. In the second, a 21-year-old man killed eight people in the village of Dubona, 40 kilometres south of Belgrade.
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