Man faces murder charges after mass shooting in Croatia nursing home

Detained suspect retired military police officer Kresimir Pahoki is transferred for interrogation in Bjelovar (Damir Krajac/Cropix/AP)

A suspected gunman is facing 11 criminal charges, including murder, after he was accused of killing six people, including his own mother, in a mass shooting at a nursing home in Croatia, police said on Tuesday.

The carnage stunned Daruvar, a spa town of some 8,500 people in central Croatia, and sent shockwaves throughout the country, where such shootings have been rare despite many weapons left over from war in the 1990s.