SECOND MASS Shooting in Serbia -Many DEAD-Suspect Arrested

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Belgrade Shooting: Huge Police Operation After Serbia School Attack

Schoolboy, 14, Planned Belgrade Attack and Had List of Targets

At least eight students and a security guard are dead after a shooting at a school in Serbia's capital Belgrade.

BBC News 3 MAY 2023





Another six pupils and a teacher were injured in the attack and have been taken to hospital, the interior ministry said in a statement.








Police arrested a 14-year-old student at the Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade in connection with Wednesday morning's attack.

The suspect is alleged to have used his father's gun, officials said.



An investigation into the motives behind the incident is under way.

Officers in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school, located in the central Vracar neighbourhood, shortly after 08:40 local time (06:40 GMT).

"The police sent all available patrols immediately to the spot and arrested a suspected minor - a seventh grade student who is suspected of firing several shots from his father's gun in the direction of students and school security," the interior ministry said in a statement.

"All police forces are still on the ground working intensively to shed light on all the facts and circumstances that led to this tragedy," it added in a later message.

The sounds of crying parents could be heard on the streets around the school hours after Wednesday morning's shooting. Some of them still do not know if their children are alive and told the BBC they were angered that the police haven't given them more information.

"Please tell us anything", some pleaded with the officers on the ground.

Others were calling every hospital and doctor in Belgrade they know to see if their child is being treated there.

"She has long hair and black jeans", one mother was heard repeating over her phone.

Police have asked parents who haven't heard from their children to go to a nearby police station for further information.

Two 13-year-old boys and one girl who were shot have been transferred to a local hospital in Tirsova.

The director of the clinic, Dr Sinisa Ducic, told state broadcaster RTS that the boys were stable, telling reporters that they had suffered gunshot wounds to their lower extremities.

"They are being monitored and receiving therapy," he added.

But he said the girl had suffered a serious head injury and was undergoing an operation.

Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the pupils at the school, said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired and managed to escape.

"[The boy] first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly," Milosevic told broadcaster N1.

"I saw the security guard lying under the table. I saw two girls with blood on their shirts. They say he [the shooter] was quiet and a good pupil. He recently joined their class."

"I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots," one student told the Serbian state broadcaster RTS.

Milan Nedeljkovic, mayor of the central Vracar district where the school is located, said doctors were fighting to save the teacher's life.

Mass shootings are comparatively rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership in the country is among the highest in Europe.

The western Balkans are awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that there are 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia - the third highest in the world, behind the US and Montenegro.

In the deadliest shooting since then, Ljubisa Bogdanovic killed 14 people in the central village of Velika Ivanca in 2013, and Nikola Radosavljevic killed nine and wounded five in the eastern village of Jabukovac in July 2007.




A BBC map showing the location of the shooting

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Suspect Arrested After SECOND Mass Shooting in Serbia

Scene where Serbia gunman arrested near Belgrade in second mass shooting

BBC News 5 MAY 2023




Security forces operate at a checkpoint during the aftermath of a shooting, in Dubona






A suspect has been arrested after eight people were killed and at least 14 injured in Serbia's second mass shooting this week.


The gunman fired an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle near a village 60km (37 miles) south of Belgrade.

The interior ministry said the suspect was arrested after "an extensive search".




It comes after a boy killed nine people at a Belgrade school on Wednesday, Serbia's worst shooting in years.

Police announced the latest arrest around 08:40 local time (07:40 BST) on Friday. The suspect - who has only been identified by his initials UB - was detained near the city of Kragujevac, the interior ministry said.

The arrest followed an extensive manhunt, which local media reported involved over 600 police officers. Early on Friday morning, Serbian media said that special police forces had arrived at the villages of Mladenovac and Dubona, where the latest shooting occurred.

Photos from the scene showed police officers stopping cars at checkpoints as they tried to find the gunman. A helicopter, drones and multiple police patrols were also used.

Reports on local media say the suspect - who the interior ministry said was born in 2002 - started firing at people with an automatic weapon after having an argument with a police officer in a park in Dubona on Thursday evening.


Milan Prokić, a Dubona resident, told Radio Belgrade 1 he heard shots near his house: "It's sad, regrettable, we locked ourselves in our home so [the shots] wouldn't come to us."

The man is then said to have proceeded to shoot people from a car, killing at least eight people and wounding many more.

All injured people admitted to hospital were born after the year 2000, Serbian broadcaster RTS has reported.

Two people aged 21 and 23 were operated on, but remain in critical condition.

The minister of health, Danica Grujičić, and the head of the Security Intelligence Agency, Aleksandar Vulin, reportedly travelled to the area in the early hours of Friday.

On Wednesday, a thirteen-year-old boy shot dead eight fellow pupils at his school in Belgrade, as well as a security guard. It prompted the Serbian government to propose tighter restrictions of gun ownership.


Mass shootings are extremely rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws, but gun ownership in the country is among the highest in Europe.

The western Balkans are awash with illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that there are 39.1 firearms per 100 people in Serbia - the third highest in the world, behind the US and Montenegro.