A "crazy murderer" walked into a restaurant Tuesday in the eastern Czech Republic, killing eight people before he took his own life, authorities said.
Diners were settling down
for lunch at a restaurant in the center of Uhersky Brod, a town near
Ziln of about 17,000 people not far from the Slovak border, when the
gunman entered.
The result was one of the Czech Republic's deadliest mass murders in about 40 years.
Authorities
haven't named the shooter, nor have they given any indication of his
motivation. Interior Minister Milan Chovanec described him as a local
man in his 60s who had a permit to own guns.
Reports
suggest the gunman was mentally unstable and may have called a Czech TV
station's crime line immediately before carrying out the attack.
"We
have never seen anything like this before," said Tomas Tuhy, the head
of the Czech Republic's national police. "This is a tragedy."
Lunchtime attack
The
gunman rushed into the then-packed Druzba restaurant and fired multiple
times, Czech TV reporter Vaclav Cernohorsky told CNN, citing the town's
mayor. The shooter then killed himself, the mayor reportedly said.
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