Police cordoned off the premise where the incident occurred. Photo: Reuters video screen grab.
A gunman killed five people including his mother in a nursing home in northwestern Croatia on Monday, a government official said.
Six people were also reported with injuries, one of the wounded later died in hospital taking the death toll to six, while four remain in critical condition.
One of the victims was a nursing home employee, Marin Piletic, minister for labour, pension, family and social policy, told journalists.
"According to the information we have the mother of the killer had been in the nursing home for 10 years," Piletic said.
Authorities have given no motive for the attack.
Croatian media reported that the gunman, born in 1973, is a war veteran.
"We are shocked," Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told reporters in Split.
"This is really a monstrous act of the murder of a group of people, of the mother and other very old people who happened to be there.... We condemn this crime."
The killer fled the scene, but was later arrested by the police, N1 news portal reported.
克羅埃西亞療養院槍擊案中槍手殺死六人，其中包括他的母親
一名政府官員稱，一名槍手週一在克羅埃西亞西北部的一家療養院殺害了包括他母親在內的五人。
據報道，還有六人受傷，其中一名傷者後來在醫院死亡，死亡人數達六人，四人仍處於危急狀態。
勞工、退休金、家庭和社會政策部長馬林·皮萊蒂克 (Marin Piletic) 告訴記者，其中一名受害者是療養院員工。
皮萊蒂奇說：“根據我們掌握的信息，兇手的母親已經在療養院住了十年。”
當局沒有透露攻擊的動機。
克羅埃西亞媒體報道稱，槍手出生於1973年，是一名退伍軍人。
「我們感到震驚，」總理安德烈·普連科維奇在斯普利特對記者說。
“這確實是謀殺一群人、母親和其他碰巧在那裡的老人的可怕行為……我們譴責這一罪行。”
據 N1 新聞門戶網站報道，兇手逃離現場，但隨後被警方逮捕。
Source: Reuters
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