The Serbian veteran suspected of killing 13 people in a shooting rampage and then turning the gun on himself and his wife has died, hospital officials said.

A 60-year-old war veteran has shot dead 13 people in Serbia, including a baby, in a pre-dawn house-to-house rampage before trying to kill himself and his wife.

Thirteen people have been killed by a man who went on a shooting spree in a village near Belgrade, health officials in Serbia said today.