The Serbian government decided today to declare a day of mourning in Serbia tomorrow for the tragedy in the town of Cetinje, Montenegro, where a gunman shot 12 people and injured four earlier this week, TANJUG reported, quoted by BTA.
The government decided to declare a day of mourning at the proposal of Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic.
Today's government meeting began with a minute of silence for the victims of the mass murder in Cetinje, and Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vucic once again expressed his condolences to the families of those killed in Cetinje and to the people of Montenegro.
On January 1 a gunman shot dead seven men, three women - including his sister - and two children aged 10 and 13 in the southern Montenegrin town of Cetinje, before shooting himself in the head and dying on the way to hospital. Four others remain in hospital with serious injuries.
It is believed that after a dispute in a bar, the 45-year-old man, identified as Aco Martinovic, went home to retrieve his weapon before launching a bloody attack at several locations in Cetinje.
It is the second mass shooting in less than three years in the town of Cetinje, 38km west of Podgorica. In August 2022 a gunman killed 10 people, including two children, before being shot dead.
Montenegro, which has a population of about 633,000, has a deep-rooted gun-owning culture.
Like other countries in the Western Balkans - Serbia, Bosnia, Albania, Kosovo and North Macedonia - Montenegro is also awash with illegally owned weapons, mostly left over from the bloody wars of the 1990s as the former Yugoslavia broke up.