A shootout killed six people in a hospital in Ostrava, a city in the eastern Czech Republic. The gunman, a 42-year-old man, committed suicide.

A man opened fire Tuesday morning in a hospital in Ostrava in the eastern Czech Republic killing six people, before committing suicide. "We found the gunman, the 42-year-old man shot himself in the head before the police took action and died," police said. Four people were killed instantly and two others died as a result of their injuries. Two other people were also injured in the attack, police said.

Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babis lamented "an immense tragedy." "It's also something we are not used to in our country," he added. "I was told that the victims were people waiting at the trauma department, fortunately there were not as many as usual," he said. Shooting is rare in the Czech Republic, a country of 10.7 million people, a member of the European Union. Last March, a patient from a Prague hospital shot two more patients after an argument in a room. One of the men is dead.