Serbia's health officials say 13 people have been killed when a man went on a shooting spree in a village near Belgrade. Belgrade emergency hospital spokeswoman Nada Macura said the 60-year-old man identified only as Ljubisa B. used a gun to kill six men, six women and a child. The motives of the Tuesday shooting were not immediately given.Macura says the man than tried to kill himself and his wife, who both remain severely injured.

Belgrade, Apr 9 (EFE).- At least 13 people were gunned down Tuesday in Velika Ivanca, a village located south of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, in what was apparently a rampage sparked by a family dispute, police chief Milorad Veljovic said. Two people, including the 60-year-old suspect, were seriously wounded, Veljovic told B92 radio. The suspected shooter has a firearms permit and no criminal record, Veljovic said. The man went from house to house in the village, shooting people in five dwellings, but the motive for the rampage is not known, the police chief said.

BELGRADE (Reuters) - A gunman shot dead 13 people, including his mother and son, in an early-morning rampage through a small Serbian village southwest of the capital Belgrade on Tuesday, authorities said. Those killed included a two-year-old child. The gunman, identified by police as Ljubisa Bogdanovic - a war veteran born in 1953 - also shot his wife before turning the gun on himself. Both were in critical condition in hospital, police said.

It's a dangerous job being a municipal clerk in the Kosovan town of Mitrovica, where the Ibar river forms a natural barrier between Serbs and Albanians. Since Adrijana Hodzic began issuing the identification cards of mainly Albanian Kosovo to Serbs on the north side of the river, her deputy has been shot in the leg and hand grenades lobbed at the homes of her staff. “Sometimes I feel like we're fighting against everyone,” said mother-of-two Hodzic, a Mitrovica native. Serbia does not recognize Kosovo's 2008 secession, but is under pressure from the European Union to impro