Serbian man kills 5, injures 22, in cafe shooting

Five individuals were killed and another 22 were injured from the get-go Saturday when a man entered a bistro in northern Serbia and opened shoot with a strike rifle, police said.

Police captured the suspect, a man in his late 30s recognized just as Z.S., instantly after the shooting amid a nearby celebration in the town of Zitiste, around 80 kilometers north of Belgrade.

Nebojsa Stefanovic, the inside pastor, told Belgrade's B92 TV that Z.S. executed his offended spouse and an another lady, before discharging at others in the bistro with an ambush rifle he wrongfully claimed.

"Desire could be a thought process," he said. "He was a tranquil man; he had no criminal record."

Gordana Kozlovacki, the chief of the healing center in the adjacent town of Zrenjanin, said 22 individuals were dealt with after the shooting. Seven stayed in a genuine condition.

Serbia and the greater part of the western Balkans are flooded with a huge number of illicit weapons taking after wars and agitation in the 1990s.

A police tape is seen in a cordoned area at a cafe after a shooting during a local festival in the village of Zitiste, north of Belgrade, Serbia in this still image from video taken July 2, 2016. Courtesy of N1 via

In an offer to decrease the number, Serbian police on Friday offered a pardon over surrendering or enlisting illicit weapons until November.

Saturday's killings take after various mass shootings in Serbia as of late.

Three years back, 13 individuals passed on in a shooting spree in a town close Belgrade, and a year ago six individuals were murdered in a disagreement about a wedding in Serbia's north.

(Reporting by Aleksandar Vasovic; Editing by Mark Potter)

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