The shooter also “killed members of his own family,” the minister said. The incident was apparently the “consequence of disturbed interpersonal relationships,” he said, without providing further details. The police had previously stated that the crime was not related to organized crime.
Prime Minister Milojko Spajic told public broadcaster RTCG that “a terrible tragedy” had occurred in the village of Bajice near Cetinje in the south of the country. Four seriously injured people were taken to hospitals in the capital Podgorica. “The doctors are fighting for their lives,” said he. “All police teams, special forces and all available forces are in Cetinje. We are looking for the perpetrator and we are on the right track,” he said.
The government of the small Balkan state declared three days of national mourning starting Thursday. Police urged people not to leave their homes and said they had deployed special forces to the area.
The city of Cetinje, with a population of 14,000, was the capital of what was then the Kingdom of Montenegro until 1918. In August 2022, a gunman shot ten people there before he himself was killed by an armed passerby.
