Just two days after the shooting at a Belgrade school that left nine dead, Serbia was the scene of another armed confrontation. In this opportunity, a 21-year-old teenager killed eight people and wounded 14 others in the rural municipality of dubonne, near the city of Mladenovac and 60 kilometers from the Serbian capital. The attacker was arrested in the early hours of this Friday.
“After an extensive search, members of the Interior Ministry were arrested UB, born in 2002 in Kragujevac regionin central Serbia,” the authorities said in an official statement.
And they added: “He is suspected of having killed eight people with an automatic weapon and injured 14 others, all of whom have been hospitalized”.
Among the victims is a police officer, who was off duty at the time, as well as his sister.
The incident occurred on Thursday night near Mladenovac, south of Belgrade, when he was young fired an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle before fleeingaccording to state television RTS.
Police helicopters flew over Dubona, where the shooting took place. From 600 agents were deployed to the scene, including members of the counter-terrorism unit patrolling the highway.
Furthermore, they cut the road connecting the towns of Malo Orasje and Dubona, where the shooting took place.
For his part, the Minister of Health, Danica Grjucicvisited the emergency medical center in Belgrade where at least eight of the people injured in the attack were taken.
Meanwhile, the Interior Minister, Bratislav Gasiche described the crime as “terrorist act“.
School shooting in Belgrade: a teenager killed eight students and a security guard
A 14 year old teenager killed 8 students, a student and a security guard at a Belgrade school on Wednesday, Serbia, when he fired a handgun at his classmates and teaching and security staff. Additionally, seven people were injured.
The incident caused shock in the country, where It hadn’t been a school shooting of this magnitude in decades.
The attacker, who is a student of the institute, “came out into a corridor and used a firearm. Sadly, the guard died of his injuries, a teacher was seriously injured, children were injured (…) four or five children,” Milan Nedeljkovic, president of the Vracar district in central Belgrade, told reporters.
The young man suspected of committing the crime was found and detained in the courtyard of the “Vladislav Ribnikar” elementary school, located near the center of Belgrade.
The seventh grader fired a gun, allegedly belonging to his father, at several students and members of the school’s security team. It was 8.40 in the morning.
Authorities have identified the suspect as Kosta Kecmanovica student aged between 13 and 14, who was found in the schoolyard and arrested, saying that he was armed with two pistolsone in his backpack and another he was wearing.
The boy “he planned the shooting for a month and made a list of children he intended to kill“Veselin Milic, the head of the Belgrade police, said at a press conference.
Source: Clarin
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