Protesters gathered in Montenegro to demand the resignations of senior security officials following a mass shooting earlier in the week that claimed 12 lives.

A top-level meeting in Montenegro on Friday looked for ways to curb illegal weapons after a gunman fatally shot 12 people in a second such tragedy in less than three years in the small Balkan country.

The shooting has caused shock waves in Montenegro, a small Balkan country on the Adriatic Sea, home to some 620,000 people, that has long had a strong gun culture but relatively f

Montenegrin Prime Minister Milojko Spajic called the rampage a "terrible tragedy" and declared three days of national mourning.

Residents of the Montenegrin town of Cetinje woke up on Friday to see a number of obituaries posted across street walls and posts for those killed in a New Year's day shooting.

A man shot dead 12 people in a rampage in a small town in Montenegro before turning his gun on himself early on Thursday, authorities said, in one of the Balkan nation's worst mass killings.

Shock and dismay prevails in Montenegro after a gunman fatally shot 12 people including two children in a western town before killing himself.