A WOULD-BE cannibal was in a critical condition after being wounded in a gunbattle with officers during an undercover operation, officials said. A policeman was also wounded.

The former chief judge of Czechoslovakia’s Constitutional Court has been shot dead in his home.

ANGER over loud neighbours may have caused a heavily armed man to kill seven people before committing suicide in a rampage that has shocked Slovakia, authorities suggested yesterday.

A MAN armed with an assault rifle shot six people dead, wounded 14 and then turned the gun on himself in a morning rampage on a street in the Slovak capital Bratislava.

THE innocent passenger who was caught up in a dramatic terrorist threat emergency in central Dublin after Slovakian police placed a bomb in his luggage has received €18,000 in compensation.