SLATINA, March 23 (Hina) - Antun Nikl (aged 53) from Slatina, a town east of Zagreb, who shot himself in the head on Friday afternoon after having killed attorney Marija Brnic-Bljakaj and seriously wounding his wife Marica Nikl
earlier in the day, died on Saturday. His seriously injured wife has been transferred to a hospital in Osijek.
SLATINA, March 23 (Hina) - Antun Nikl (aged 53) from Slatina, a town
east of Zagreb, who shot himself in the head on Friday afternoon
after having killed attorney Marija Brnic-Bljakaj and seriously
wounding his wife Marica Nikl earlier in the day, died on Saturday.
His seriously injured wife has been transferred to a hospital in
Osijek.#L#
According to a statement by the Virovitica-Podravina County
police, Marica Nikl was attacked on the street around 10 am, Friday,
while the attorney was killed in her office half an hour later.
After the shooting, Nikl called the police saying he wanted to turn
himself in. However, when the police arrived at his address, he
would not come out but threw two hand-grenades and opened fire at
them. After almost six hours, special police units managed to break
into the house, but found Nikl lying on the floor with a wound to his
head.
The killed attorney was representing the injured woman in divorce
proceedings. Nikl had a police record for violent behaviour and
last year police pressed charges against him for threatening his
wife.
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