Kosovo’s Inteligence Agency. Photo: Kallho

The deputy chief prosecutor at the Pristina Basic Prosecution, Ibrahim Berisha, told BIRN that one person was killed in a shooting incident inside the Kosovo Intelligence Agency building on Tuesday morning.

“The victim died because of the wounds. The prosecutor now will be at the scene and we can give details later,” Berisha said. He said that the suspect with the initials V.I. “is arrested”.

The Kosovo Intelligence Agency said that both the alleged shooter and the victim were its employees.

“Today, on 04.09.2018, at around 09:10, at the facility of the Kosovo Intelligence Agency, there has been firearms shooting, in which an interior security official shot a buffet employee. The victim has died at the UCCK [University Clinical Centre of Kosovo],” Koha quoted a press release from the Intelligence Agency as saying.

So far the identity of the victim and other details about the incident are unknown.

A spokesperson for the University Clinical Centre of Kosovo, Shpend Fazliu, also confirmed to BIRN that the hospital admitted a person who was injured in the incident this morning and that the person subsequently died as the result of their wounds.