A MAN has shot dead 13 relatives and neighbours, including a two-year-old child, in a tiny Serbian village, in the country's worst killing spree in two decades.
The man shot most of his victims in the head as they were sleeping before he shot and wounded himself, police said.
The motive for the pre-dawn Tuesday attack, which shocked the village outside the capital Belgrade, was not immediately clear.
"Twelve people were killed on the spot while the thirteenth died in a hospital emergency room," head of Serbian police Milorad Veljovic told journalists.
"Doctors are trying to save the lives of three injured, including the perpetrator of this monstrous murder," he said.
It was the killing spree with the most victims in Serbia in two decades, a police source told AFP.
The national RTS television identified the attacker as sexagenarian Ljubisa Bogdanovic, who it said killed six men, six women and a baby.
Police said the 13th victim was a two-year-old child.
The victims were killed in five different houses in the village of Velika Ivanca, about 50 kilometres south of Belgrade, inhabited mostly by the gunman's relatives, Veljovic said.
"There are a total of five houses, belonging to his family and his neighbours. We still don't know the motive," he said.
All the victims were sleeping when they were attacked and most were shot in the head, he added.
The killer is believed to have first killed his 42-year-old son, then his mother, and wounded his wife before continuing his killing spree.
Police later found him in the yard of one of the houses where he tried to commit suicide. The gunman was hospitalised with head injuries and doctors were fighting to save his life, Veljovic said.
Residents of the village milled around the scene of the crime, many in shock and disbelief and some crying.
Police have sealed off access to the five houses, located on a hill in a remote area of the village of about 1700 inhabitants.
"I talked to him yesterday. I asked him how he was, and he said fine. He asked me about my health," Stanica Kostadinovic, a visibly shocked neighbour in her 60s, told AFP.
"He was the best neighbour. Nothing indicated that such a thing could happen. Only he knows the motive for the killing."
"He was a good host, he and his son, nice, hard-working, always ready to help," the woman said, adding that as far as she knew the killer was not consuming alcohol.
According to police, the man had a firearms licence.
Investigators were checking the gunman's past as so far nothing from his current life hinted why he committed such a crime, a police source told AFP.
The state-run Tanjug news agency reported, quoting police, that the gunman fought alongside rebel Serbs during the 1990s war in Croatia.
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