Eight children and a security guard have been killed after a student opened fire ‘with his father’s gun’ at a school in Belgrade
Another six pupils and a teacher were injured in the attack at the Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade.“I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots,” a girl who attends a high school adjacent to Vladislav Ribnikar told state TV RTS.A student apparently fired several shots from his father's gun at other students and the school guard, according to police. The motive for the shooting is unclear.
Read more: Knifeman arrested for 'throwing shotgun cartridges' into Buckingham Palace, after shouting 'I'm going to kill the King'Local media footage from the scene showed commotion outside the school as police removed the suspect, whose head was covered as officers led him to a car parked in the street.
Mass shootings in Serbia are extremely rare. Experts, however, have repeatedly warned about the number of weapons left over in the country after the wars of the 1990s.
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