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Gunman Kills 6 in Croatia Nursing Home Shooting

Police secure a crime scene in Daruvar, Croatia, July 22, 2024. Damir Spehar/PIXSELL/Handout via REUTERS
Police secure a crime scene in Daruvar, Croatia, July 22, 2024. Damir Spehar/PIXSELL/Handout via REUTERS
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Gunman Kills 6 in Croatia Nursing Home Shooting

Police secure a crime scene in Daruvar, Croatia, July 22, 2024. Damir Spehar/PIXSELL/Handout via REUTERS
Police secure a crime scene in Daruvar, Croatia, July 22, 2024. Damir Spehar/PIXSELL/Handout via REUTERS

A gunman entered a nursing home in northwestern Croatia on Monday shooting dead five people, including his mother, and injuring six others, a government minister said.
One of the wounded later died in hospital taking the death toll to six, while four remain in critical condition.
One of the victims was a nursing home employee, Marin Piletic, minister for labor, pension, family and social policy, told journalists.
"According to the information we have the mother of the killer had been in the nursing home for 10 years," Piletic said.
According to Reuters, authorities have given no motive for the attack.
Croatian media reported that the gunman, born in 1973, is a war veteran.
"We are shocked," Prime Minister Andrej Plenkovic told reporters in Split.
"This is really a monstrous act of the murder of a group of people, of the mother and other very old people who happened to be there.... We condemn this crime."
The killer fled the scene, but was later arrested by the police, N1 news portal reported.

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Taiwan Starts Annual War Games, Aiming to Closely Mimic Actual Combat

Soldiers take part in the first day of the annual Han Kuang military drills in Taoyuan, Taiwan July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Soldiers take part in the first day of the annual Han Kuang military drills in Taoyuan, Taiwan July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang
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Taiwan Starts Annual War Games, Aiming to Closely Mimic Actual Combat

Soldiers take part in the first day of the annual Han Kuang military drills in Taoyuan, Taiwan July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang
Soldiers take part in the first day of the annual Han Kuang military drills in Taoyuan, Taiwan July 22, 2024. REUTERS/Ann Wang

Taiwan started its annual Han Kuang war games on Monday, which this year aim to be as close as possible to actual combat with no script and simulating how to repel a Chinese attack.
China, which views democratically governed Taiwan as its territory, has been staging regular exercises around the island for four years to pressure Taipei to accept Beijing's claim of sovereignty, despite Taiwan's strong objections, said Reuters.
Taiwan's drills this year have canceled elements that were mostly for show, like scripted firepower displays, while there will be intensified nighttime exercises and practicing how to operate with severed command lines.
Kicking off the exercises in the northern city of Taoyuan, outside of Taipei and home to Taiwan's main international airport, reservists gathered to get their orders as they would during a war, and civilian vans were pressed into service to carry supplies.
Later in the day the military will practice defending a major Taipei port.
On Thursday, Taoyuan airport will close for an hour in the morning for the drills, though a typhoon is expected to be impacting the island that day meaning that the exercise could be delayed.
Live fire drills will only take place on Taiwan's outlying islands, including Kinmen and Matsu which sit nestled next to the Chinese coast and were the scene of on-off clashes during the height of the Cold War.
The five-day war games will be happening in conjunction with the Wan'an civil defense drills, where the streets of major cities are evacuated for half an hour during a simulated Chinese missile attack, and test warning alarms will sound on mobile phones.