Man in Bosnia kills ex-wife live on Instagram, murders two more before committing suicide
Published:Friday | August 11, 2023 | 12:00 PM
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — A man in Bosnia killed his ex-wife while streaming the slaying live on Instagram and then killed two other people while on the run before taking his own life Friday, according to police and media reports.
The attack took place in the northeastern Bosnian town of Gradacac, where the assailant also wounded three additional people before he “committed suicide after being located and before being apprehended,” police said in a statement in the regional centre of Tuzla.
Prosecutors said that after killing his ex-wife, the man went onto the streets of Gradacac with a pistol and shot and killed a man and his son.
He also wounded a policeman, another man and a woman at various locations in the community.
“I have no words to describe what happened today in Gradacac,” said Nermin Niksic, the Prime Minister of the Bosnian Federation.
“The murderer took his own life in the end, but no one can bring back the lives of the victims.”
Authorities did not immediately offer any more details or possible motives for the shootings.
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