At least six people, including the mother of the aggressordied on Monday in a nursing home in Daruvar, eastern Croatia, when a man entered the building and opened fire with a firearm, local police reported.

The death toll rose from five to six after one of the injured people died, while six others were injured, five of them seriously. “We are shocked by the the monstrous act of murder “mother and other very elderly people,” Croatian Prime Minister Andrej Plenković was quoted as saying by the Index website.

“These are people born in the 1930s of the last century, They are about 90 years old“We have to see what happened,” Plenkovic added, expressing “bitterness and indignation over this heinous crime.”

The alleged attacker, who had a criminal record, He was arrested by the police Croatian police said he was shot in a cafe while trying to flee and was in possession of an unregistered firearm. Police have intervened against him three times in the past for violent behaviour, police chief Nikola Milina added.

The media reports that the alleged killer is a retired former military police officer51, from the nearby village of Donji Daruvar, whose mother lived in the nursing home. According to Nova television, the dead were residents of the nursing home, as well as an employee of the institution.

Croatian President Zoran Milanović also expressed his dismay at “the savage crime “This is an unprecedented and terrifying warning and a final call to all relevant institutions to do more to prevent violence in society, including even stricter control of gun ownership,” the head of state said on Facebook.

Milanovic called for a quick and thorough investigation of the circumstances of this crime.