Gunman killed after Estonian ministry shooting

    Updated: 2011-08-12 13:14

    (Agencies)

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    TALLINN - A man fired shots and set off a smoke bomb at the Defence Ministry in Estonia's capital Tallinn and then was killed as police moved in, officials said on Thursday.

    The motive of the man who carried out the attack, a rare incidence of such violence in the small Baltic state, was not clear, the authorities said.  

    Gunman killed after Estonian ministry shooting

    Estonian police officers stand outside the building of the Defence Ministry in Tallinn, August 11, 2011. [Photo/Agencies]

    They named the man as Karen Drambjan and said he was born in 1954, without giving a precise birth date.

    The prosecutor's office said in a statement Drambjan broke into the Defence Ministry building in the centre of Tallinn and threw a smoke bomb.

    It had initially said the man took two hostages, but in a later statement it said the people were caught in the building when it was evacuated and were later freed.

    "The unknown man who entered the Ministry of Defence building slightly after three in the afternoon today was killed in the course of the joint operation carried out by the police and the Security Police," the statement said. "Nobody else suffered any injuries."

    It said the man was armed with a pistol and with packets of explosives. It denied the man committed suicide, as had been said by some officials earlier. The prosecutor's office said the man had no link with the armed forces.

    "The motive of his action has remained unclear," Prime Minister Andrus Ansip was quoted by news portal Delfi as saying.

    "This is depressing. It looks like someone has been inspired by the events in Norway," he said, referring to the July 22 rampage and bombing by gunman Anders Breivik.

    A report on the website of Russian-language newspaper Dyen za Dnyom said Drambyan's apartment had been sold by court bailiffs on the eve of the attack.

    Defence Minister Mart Laar was quoted by Delfi as saying that the man had hundreds of bullets, a bag of explosives and a gas mask.

    Estonian media said Drambjan was born in Yerevan, Armenia, held a university degree in law and owned a small law firm. He had joined a small left-wing political party.

    Such incidents are extremely rare in Estonia, a former Soviet state which regained its independence in 1991 and joined the European Union and NATO in 2004.

    The most recent unrest was in 2007 when Russian-speaking youths rioted and looted the city centre for two days after authorities put a statue of a Red Army soldier, that had been in the centre, in a cemetery.

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