Bosnia high school staffer shoots dead three colleagues: police

SARAJEVO: Three high

school employees

were shot dead Wednesday at a school in northwest Bosnia by a co-worker who then tried to kill himself, police said.
The shooting occurred around 10.00 am local time (0800 GMT) in

Sanski Most

as teachers held a meeting to prepare for the upcoming school year and no students were present, local media reported.
"This man used a military firearm, an

automatic rifle

, to kill three school employees and tried to kill himself," Adnan Beganovic, a spokesman for the local police, told national radio.

The assailant was seriously wounded and transferred to a hospital in

Banja Luka

in the north, he said.

Police did not provide a motive for the attack, with local media saying that the man was facing

disciplinary proceedings

.
The last school shooting in the Balkans occurred in May 2023 in Belgrade, when a teenager shot dead 10 people, including nine classmates.