Gunman kills five people in Georgian town | The Guardian Nigeria News - Nigeria and World News ⬇️
A former serviceman opened fire in a Georgian town, killing five people before turning the weapon on himself, the Caucasus country’s interior ministry said Friday.
The shooting took place overnight in Sagarejo, a town of some 10,000 people around 50 kilometres east of the Georgian capital Tbilisi. The interior ministry said the gunman opened fire from the balcony of an apartment block, killing four people in the building’s courtyard and a police officer, who was called to the scene.The ministry said the gunman killed himself when police reinforcements arrived.
Interior Minister Vakhtang Gomelauri told local media the shooter was ex-military, who served between 2006 and 2021, including in Afghanistan.Police found the shooter “lying on a bed with a firearm near him” and a wound to his head, Gomelauri was quoted as saying by Georgia’s 1TV.A criminal investigation has been opened into charges of murder and the illegal possession of firearms.
In October, a shooter opened fire at a restaurant in Georgia’s Black Sea port city of Batumi, killing one person — a Turkish citizen — and injuring three others.
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