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Gunman kills six in Bosnian town | Gunman kills six in Bosnian town |
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A man has shot dead at least six people near the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla, police say. | A man has shot dead at least six people near the northern Bosnian town of Tuzla, police say. |
One more person was seriously wounded in the shooting, which took place at about 0600 local time (0400 GMT). | |
The gunman, said to be 45 years old, reportedly killed three people in their homes and another three on a bus. | The gunman, said to be 45 years old, reportedly killed three people in their homes and another three on a bus. |
The Tuzla region, in the Muslim-Croat Federation, is home to thousands of mainly Muslim refugees from other parts of Bosnia displaced in the 1992-95 war. | |
Police and witnesses say the man entered two family homes in the village of Gornja Lipnica, killing two people in the first and one in the second. | |
He then entered a nearby bus, killing another three people and wounding the driver, before being arrested. | |
Witnesses said the man was a local resident, who had been behaving strangely for some time and suffered from depression. |