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Gunman kills relatives in Bosnia | |
(about 4 hours later) | |
A Bosnian Croat man shot dead six of his own relatives in a village near the north Bosnian town of Tuzla before being arrested by police. | |
Police reportedly stopped the gunman, 45, as he tried to reload his pistol after killing three people in their homes and three on a bus. | |
A seventh person was seriously wounded in the attacks, which took place at about 0600 (0400 GMT). | |
Police said they were still trying to establish a motive for the attack. | |
Police and witnesses say Tomislav Petrovic entered two family homes in the village of Gornja Lipnica, killing two people in the first and one in the second. | |
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Reports said the gunman was a forty-five year-old local man. It's not clear if the gunman had any political grudge. | Reports said the gunman was a forty-five year-old local man. It's not clear if the gunman had any political grudge. |
He then entered a nearby bus, killing another three people and wounding the driver, before being arrested. | He then entered a nearby bus, killing another three people and wounding the driver, before being arrested. |
The victims' ages ranged from 48 to 50, a police spokesman was quoted as saying by the Associated Press news agency. | |
Witnesses said he had been behaving strangely for some time and suffered from depression. | |
The Tuzla region, in Bosnia's Muslim-Croat federation, is home to thousands of mainly Muslim (Bosniak) refugees displaced in the 1992-95 war. |