Man kills six before turning gun on himself

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.

“A man in his 50s shot six people dead and eventually killed himself after the police cornered him as he tried to escape the crime scene,” police commander Jaroslav Spisiak told reporters at the scene.

The shooting spree started after 8am GMT in an apartment on a housing estate in Devinska Nova Ves, an otherwise quiet north-western district of the city.