Gunman Kills 3 People at School in Bosnia
A school employee shot dead three people on Wednesday in a town in northwestern Bosnia, the police said, and was then severely wounded after trying to kill himself.
The shooting took place around 10 a.m. local time in a high school building in Sanski Most, about 180 miles northwest of Bosnia’s capital, Sarajevo, according to a regional police spokesman, Adnan Beganovic.
Mr. Beganovic said that the gunman had used a “military weapon, an automatic rifle.” The attacker then attempted to kill himself and is in serious condition in a hospital in the nearby city of Banja Luka, Mr. Beganovic added, noting that the victims included the school principal, a secretary and a teacher.
The television station N1 reported that the attacker had been involved in a dispute with the school’s management. No other details were immediately available.
Bosnian schools are closed for the summer vacation, but Mr. Beganovic said that people were in the building because repeat examinations were underway.
The Balkan region is awash with small arms and weapons after the wars in the 1990s that led to the breakup of Yugoslavia. The problem is particularly pronounced in Bosnia, a country of about 3.5 million people. According to a 2010 study by the United Nations Development Program, there were about 750,000 weapons in illegal possession in Bosnia.
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