Five killed and 20 wounded as ‘jealous husband’ opens fire on cafe diners

A gunman killed five people and injured at least 20 others when he opened fire with an automatic weapon in a cafe in Serbia on Saturday. The suspect, identified only as Z.S. first killed his wife and another woman before randomly shooting at other occupants of the cafe in Zrenjanin. Witnesses said the attacker came to the cafe and saw his wife there with a group of friends before going home and returning with a gun. Other diners grabbed his gun as he tried to run away before police arrived and arrested him.

He just pulled out a gun and started shooting, first into the air. It sounded like firecrackers at first. Then the guy next to me fell down and others started falling down. It was total chaos

Witness Svetozar Manojlovic

The wounded were taken to hospitals in Zrenjanin and Novi Sad. Doctorssaid seven people needed surgery and were in a serious condition. Serbia’s interior minister Nebojsa Stefanovic said the probable motive was jealousy and the automatic weapon was held illegally. He appealed to citizens to hand over illegal weapons that many people have following the wars in the Balkans in the 1990s. “This was completely unexpected,” Mr Stefanovic said, speaking in front of the Makijato cafe. “There were no signs at all, people tell us that he was completely calm and normal.”

There were no signs at all, people tell us that he was completely calm and norma.

Nebojsa Stefanovic

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