At least five people have been killed in a gun attack at a nursing home in Croatia. according to officials and state media, in a rare instance of gun violence in the Balkan country.
Police said they were informed of the incident at 10.10am local time (9.10am Irish time) and confirmed the suspect had entered the nursing home and used a firearm.
In a statement, the police said the person linked to the perpetration of the crime is under police custody.
The number of dead was later confirmed by Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic, who called for a thorough investigation by relevant officials.
“We are appalled by the murder of five people at the home for elderly in Daruvar,” Plenkovic said on social media.
The head of a regional emergency care facility, Nenad Mrzlecki, told local media that medical teams found four dead at the scene and four others wounded, who were immediately taken to local hospitals.
Mrzlecki did not provide information about the fifth victim.
Last year in neighbouring Serbia, the country was rocked by back-to-back mass shootings, including a massacre at a school in the capital in Belgrade in which 10 people were killed.
