Czech restaurant shooting Nine dead including gunman

A gunman opened fire inside a small-town restaurant in eastern Czech Republic today, killing eight people and seriously wounding a waitress before he fatally shot himself, officials said.

It was the worst shooting attack in the young country’s history.
The gunman was a local man aged around 60, said Patrik Kuncar, mayor of the southeastern town of Uhersky Brod.  Czech public radio said the gunman called a local television station before the attack, complaining that police were not solving his problems and threatening that he would “take things into his hands.”
Interior Minister Milan Chovanec, who arrived at the scene, said the man had a gun license. “It was not a terrorist attack” he said.