“Twelve people were killed, of whom two were children,“ prosecutor Andrijana Nastic told reporters in the southern town of Cetinje, raising the previous toll of at least 10 from Wednesday’s attack.
The killing spree started around 5:30 pm (1630 GMT) in Bajice, a village near Cetinje, according to police.
Police said the two killed children were aged 10 and 13.
On Thursday morning, three remained in critical condition including one, who sustained a head injury, in extremely critical condition, hospital head Aleksandar Radovic told reporters.
‘Terrible tragedy’
Police chief Lazar Scepanovic said the suspect “had consumed alcoholic beverages all day” before an altercation between him and another restaurant guest.
Police earlier had ruled out any “showdown between organised criminal groups”, adding that the firearm was owned illegally.
Spajic said that the shootings were a “restaurant fight” gone wrong and that he would be tightening the country’s criteria for firearms possession.
The country’s National Security Council is to meet on Friday to review “key challenges in the detection and seizure of illegal weapons” as well as the recruitment of additional police officers, a government statement said.
President Jakov Milatovic said he was “shocked and shaken by this tragedy that has cast a shadow over our Cetinje”.
But mass shootings are rare in the Balkan nation of just over 620,000 people.
Cetinje, with the population of around 13,000 people, is the site of the former royal capital and sits in a mountainous valley that has largely stagnated economically.
In June, two people were killed in a blast at a Cetinje sports centre, an attack linked to organised crime.
Organised crime and corruption remain two major issues plaguing Montenegro that authorities have pledged to tackle in its bid to join the European Union.
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