Eight killed, 13 seriously injured in Slovakia shooting

14:17, 31 August 2010

BRATISLAVA. August 31. KAZINFORM Eight people, including the gunman, died and 13 others were seriously injured in a shooting incident in the Slovak capital Bratislava on Monday, local police said; Kazinform refers to Xinhua.

The deadly shooting spree is the worst of its kind in more than a decade, the police added.

According to a report of the state-run TASR news agency, the incident occurred at around 10 a.m. (0800 GMT) Monday in Devinska Nova Ves district on the outskirts of Bratislava.

An unidentified middle-aged man attacked a family of Roma minority, killing six of its members. He then started shooting on people in the street and neighboring houses with an automatic gun and other weapons, fatally injuring a 50-year-old woman on a balcony.

"Policemen arrived two minutes after they got an emergency call and saw the presumed murderer coming out of the house," police chief Jaroslav Spisiak said at a press conference, adding that the gunman fired at the police and also indiscriminately at the passers-by; Kazinform cites Xinhua.

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