Podvinje shooting

Slavonski Brod shooting
Location Podvinje, Croatia
Date April 14, 1998
~ 10 p.m. (CEST)
Attack type
 Mass murder, murder-suicide
Weapons Kalashnikov rifle (7.62×39mm)
Deaths 8 (including the perpetrator)
Non-fatal injuries
 1
Perpetrator Antun Mataić

The Podvinje shooting was an act of mass murder that occurred in the village of Podvinje, near Slavonski Brod, Croatia on April 14, 1998 at about 10 p.m., when 50-year-old Antun Mataić (also reported as Antun Matajić-Tunja)[1] opened fire at guests in the café "Trenk" with a semi-automatic rifle, killing six men and one woman, and seriously wounding a 44-year-old man. He then drove away in his car and committed suicide a few kilometres away from the crime scene either by exploding a hand grenade,[2] or by setting his vehicle on fire and shooting himself.[3][4][5][6]

Mataić (born May 8, 1947 in Završje, Brod–Posavina County)[7] had already threatened people in the café with murder a few days prior to the shooting.[1]

Victims

  • Pavo Barišić, 23
  • Tomislav Farkaš, 33
  • Gordana Lešar, 22
  • Ilija Odobašić, 24
  • Ivica Sabljak, 35
  • Marijan Spehar, 19
  • Ivan Vrdoljak, 41

Wounded was Ilija Reljanović, 44.[8]

References

  1. 1 2 Likvidirao obitelj jer žena nije htjela preseliti na selo?, Novi list (May 26, 2009)
  2. ↑ Najteži zločini u Slavoniji, Jutarnji list (November 12, 2006)
  3. ↑ Seven Killed in Croatia Shooting, Reuters (April 15, 1998)
  4. ↑ Sieben Menschen in einer Gaststätte erschossen, Stuttgarter Zeitung (April 16, 1998)
  5. ↑ Amoklauf auch in Kroatien, Oberösterreichische Nachrichten (April 16, 1998)
  6. ↑ Kroatien: Amokschütze tötet sieben Männer in Gaststätte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (April 16, 1998)
  7. ↑ KRATKE VIJESTI IZ HRVATSKE, HRT (April 23, 1998)
  8. ↑ SLAVONSKI BROD: UBIJENO SEDMERO OSOBA, HRT (April 15, 1998)
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