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Monday morning shooting spree in Bratislava suburb kills seven and injures 15 - updated

Tue, Aug 31 2010 11:14 CET

byZuzana Vilikovská - The Slovak Spectator

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Monday morning shooting spree in Bratislava suburb kills seven and injures 15 - updated

Local residents light candles to pay their respects to the victims of Monday's gun shooting in the district of Devinska Nova Ves, in Bratislava August 30 2010.

Seven people have died as a result of a shooting spree that took place in Devínska Nová Ves, a suburban district of Bratislava, on Monday morning, August 30.

Dominika Šulková, the head of the Operation Centre of the Emergency Rescue Service first confirmed to the SITA newswire that "six people did not survive the attack; four women and two men." But since that original report was made one more man has died from gunshot wounds.

The shooting spree began about ten in the morning and more than twenty persons were shot, including a three-year-old child whose condition is now stable. The injured persons with gunshot wounds were taken to four Bratislava hospitals and one was treated on site. Others were driven by eight ambulances that kept transporting people between the shooting site and hospitals in Bratislava.

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Anonymous Vulcho Wed, Sep 01 2010 15:24 CET
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The seven who were murdered in Devínska Nová Ves were all Roma, shot to death by a non-Romani gunman using a sub-machine gun and two handguns. Six of the Roma were from one family, an elderly grandmother, her daughter and some grandchildren. The Slovak press is trying to say that the shootings
were not racially motivated but neighbours told reporters that the
killer had expressed hatred of Roma. 14 other victims were wounded
but the reports are not clear whether they were Roma or not.

Monday's shooting rampage, which [...]

 Read the full comment also wounded 15 people, has shaken Slovakia. A special government session dedicated to the attack took place Tuesday afternoon and a requiem in commemoration of those who died was to be held Wednesday afternoon in St. Martin's Cathedral in Bratislava. Prime Minister Iveta Radicova has declared Thursday a national day of mourning.

Given the violence against Roma elsewhere, the expulsions from France, this incident requires a bright spotlight.


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