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Marko Djurica / Reuters A policeman stands guard in the village of VelikaIvanca, Serbia, on Tuesday.

13 dead, including a baby, after house-to-house shooting spree in Serbian villageBy Alastair Jamieson, Staff writer, NBC NewsTue Apr 9, 2013 3:21 AM EDT NBCNews.co

A 60-year-old man fatally shot 13 people, including a baby, in a house-to-house rampage in a quiet village in SerbiTuesday, before trying to kill himself and his wife.

The gunman, identified by police as Ljubisa Bogdanovic - a former soldier and veteran of the early-1990s regional

conflict was in a critical condition in hospital along with his wife, Javorak,police told reporters.

Serbian police official Milorad Veljovic said the victims included 6 women, 6 men and a two-year-old boy,and other reports.according to Serbian news site Press Online

The shooter came from a quiet family and had no criminal record, Veljovic said. We'll see what the motive is fothis gruesome murder, we're all just stunned, he told reporters.

Bogdanovic had lost his job last year, Veljovic saidaccording to Reuters, and had a firearms permit for hiCZ88 pistol, according to Press Online and .Novosti

"We have never seen a tragedy like this in Serbia, andfor that reason a motive must be ascertained - whatprompted this man to kill so many people in theirsleep," Veljovic added, .according to news site B92

'Good neighbor'Residents of the village of Velika Ivanca, 30 milessoutheast of the capital Belgrade, said Bogdanovic firkilled his son, before leaving the house and shooting hneighbors, some of whom were still asleep.

"He knocked on the doors, and as they were opened he just fired a shot," villager Radovan Radosavljevic told TheAssociated Press. "He was a good neighbor and anyone would open their doors to him. I don't know whathappened."

The killings occurred between 5 a.m. and 5:30 a.m local time (11 p.m. to 11.30 p.m. ET Monday), the AP said.

Nada Macura, an official at the Belgrade hospital in Belgrade where the two were being treated, told the AP thatBogdanovic had no history of mental illness. However,Kostadinovic's wife Stanica said the man's father had hanghimself when he was a young boy and his uncle had a history of mental illness.

The AP added:

Although such apparently random shootings are rare in Serbia, weapons are readily available mostlyfrom the regional conflicts that tore through the Balkans in the 1990s and there is a tradition ofpossessing firearms.

The last similar shooting spree happened in Serbia in 2007 when a 39-year-old man gunned down ninepeople and injured two in a village in the east of the country.

Bogdanovic served as Serbian army soldier in the war in Croatia that began in 1991 and lasted until 1995, Reutersreported.

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