Gunman kills 6, injures (at least 12) others in Slovakia

[Turborama]

Source: AP

BRATISLAVA, Slovakia – The Slovak news agency says a gunman has killed six people and injured at least 12 others in suburban Bratislava.

TASR says the shooting happened on the streets of Devinska Nova Ves, on the outskirts of the Slovak capital.

TASR says the man, who has not been identified, started shooting through windows and at people in the street midmorning Monday.

Emergency crews are on the scene and authorities are urging people to stay indoors. The fate of the gunman is unclear.

Further details were not immediately available. Police have made no comment.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100830/ap_on_re_eu/eu_slovakia_shooting

[TheCowsCameHome]

1. And how is this of interest as LBN?

Not to be insensitive, but this happens all the time in this country.

[Turborama]

2. Because it's not "LBN America"

I don't think this happens all the time in Slovakia.

If the mods deem that it needs moving somewhere else, I'm sure they will.

If it's not of any interest to you personally, there's a little button at the end of the subject line you can click, it looks like this...

(edited to clarify which country this event occurred in)

[My Good Babushka]

3. I would think a mass shooting would be big news

to all humans everywhere, sorry it's so boring to you.

[Recursion]

4. Mass shootings? In the USA?

You have an odd definition of "all the time".

[TheCowsCameHome]

5. Six dead in NM, six more AZ, nine in CT in the last six weeks

That's not too often or too close to home, I guess.

heh.

[cory777]

6. Bratislava shooting spree leaves eight dead

Source: Guardian

Seven people were killed in Slovakia yesterday after a gunman went on the rampage in the country's capital before killing himself.

Among the dead were at least five members of a Roma family who lived in the Bratislava apartment block where the man began the attack, the country's interior minister Daniel Lipsic said.

The gunman, who had not been officially named last night, wounded a further 15 people, including a three-year-old boy, in the shooting yesterday morning. Police are investigating possible motives for the attack.

The man, armed with a machine gun and two pistols, opened fire in a brown-brick high-rise apartment building in Devinska Nova Ves, a rundown borough of Slovakia's capital.



Read more: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/31/bratislava-shooting-spree-slovakia

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[Arctic Dave]

7. Well, at least he had his hearing protection on. Wouldn't want to develop tinitus.

[Brother Buzz]

8. Tinitus can last a lifetime

The bells of hell go Ting-a-ling-a-ling for you, but not for me.

[pampango]

9. Turns out the shooter was targeting a Roma (Gypsie) family. The xenophobia directed towards them

in France paid dividends in Slovakia.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/world/europe/31slovak.html?src=mv

A man armed with a submachine gun and two handguns killed six members of a Roma family in their apartment house in the Slovak capital, Bratislava, on Monday, and then, firing wildly as he tried to evade the police surrounding the building, killed another person and wounded 15 more before fatally shooting himself, police and government officials said.

The killings shook the country and resonated with Europe’s growing xenophobia against Roma, or Gypsies.

While the police in Bratislava said that the gunman’s identity and motives were still being investigated, relatives and neighbors of the victims said killer lived in the same apartment building, often railed against the Roma, and had accused the family of dealing drugs and otherwise disturbing the peace.

In a video interview with the victims’ family members posted on the Web site of SME, a leading Slovak daily, one young Roma woman, identifying herself as a granddaughter of one of those killed, said she believed the crime had been fueled by racism. “He’d always been very hostile to colored people and hated us,” she said. “He picked on us all the time.”