At Least 6 Killed at Nursing Home in Croatia

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At Least 6 ******* at Nursing Home in Croatia

A gunman ******* at least six people and wounded six others on Monday morning at a home for older and infirm people in Croatia, the country’s police chief told reporters Monday afternoon. He said that the attacker had used a handgun and that a suspect was quickly arrested at a restaurant nearby.

The ******* took place in Daruvar, a spa town of about 10,000 people in the country’s central region. It is about 62 miles southeast of Zagreb, the capital.

Five residents and one employee were *******, the police chief, Nikola Milina, said. Five ***** on the scene and one at the hospital. Mr. Milina said the handgun was not registered.

Andrej Plenkovic, Croatia’s prime minister, wrote

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that he was “appalled” by the killings. He expressed condolences to the families of the victims of the “terrible ******” as well as to those who were wounded in the *******.

President Zoran Milanovic of Croatia immediately called for stricter **** control after the *******, which he called a “savage, unprecedented ******” in a

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The police did not identify the suspect on Monday, but Mr. Milina said that he was a member of a military police unit and was known to the police.

The local authorities had interacted with the man three times, Mr. Milina said, most recently a month ago. He ********** the public order and peace in 2012, the chief said, and was involved in domestic ********* in 2004. Mr. Milina added that there had been ********* in the family, between the suspect and his father.

The ******* shook Croatia, where mass killings are rare, and the town of Daruvar, known for its hot springs and wine.

Family members were desperate for information on Monday as details of the killings began to emerge.

Pero Ivandekic, whose wife runs the facility, the Vianey Home for the Elderly and Infirm, said he was waiting for news about his son-in-law Sven Sikiric, who he said was at the nursing home during the ********* and was taken to a hospital.

Mr. Ivandekic said in a phone interview that he rushed to the home after the owner of a store across the street called him and said, “Don’t ask any questions. Just come here. Quick.”

When he arrived, Mr. Ivandekic said, he found the home surrounded by over 20 police vehicles. He said that Mr. Sikiric was wounded, and he was waiting to hear from his daughter for updates.

“I have no idea what’s going on or who is in what condition,” he said.

Croatia’s ********* rate has been falling since 2000, according to the

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; in 2019, there were about 1.1 homicides per 100,000 people. From 2019 to 2021, it had one of the lower ********* rates by firearm in Europe, according to

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“I don’t remember that we’ve ever had this many people *******,” Mr. Plenkovic said at a news conference in Split on Monday afternoon.

He said some of the people who were ******* were in their 90s.

He also said that the Croatian police were trying to ****** down on ******** firearms. Mr. Plenkovic said that there were many unregistered guns in Croatia as a result of the country’s ******* war of independence in the 1990s.

“The fact that that sort of war happened brought us to many people having weapons in their homes,” Mr. Plenkovic said, including the gunman.

Would-be firearm buyers in Croatia have to undergo mental-health screening and a security background check, said Zeljko Crvtila, a criminalist and security analyst with

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, a consulting company. They also have to make an explicit case for needing a **** and pass a course on how to handle and store firearms.

Mr. Crvtila said there had been several cases in which multiple people had been ******* by a ****, but that the scale of ****** on Monday was astonishing.

“Seeing five or more people *******, that shocks everyone,” he said.

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