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Serbia: new massacre, at least ten dead south of Belgrade

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Serbia: new massacre, at least ten dead south of Belgrade

New bloodshed, ten people died and 15 were injured in two villages. Serbia about 46 km south of Belgrade, deployed on Thursday evening in Serbia.

According to press reports, a 21-year-old man sowed death in the villages of Dubona and Shepsin, randomly firing automatic weapons from his car.

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A strong police force cordoned off the area in search of the perpetrator. At least 600 police officers are involved in the search. All available patrols were sent in the direction of Mladenovac and Maly Pozarevac, and helicopters will fly over Mladenovac.

Information indicates that he was located and surrounded by police near Mali Pozarevac, but he refuses to surrender and exchange fire with the police.

Interior Minister Bratislava Gasic called the new massacre a terrorist act, the Serbian news site Telegraf reported, without elaborating.

According to local media reports, after a night of fighting in a schoolyard near Mladenovac, 42 kilometers south of Belgrade, the militant returned with a machine gun, opened fire and continued shooting from a moving vehicle.

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Photo by REUTERS/Antonio Bronik

State TV channel RTS reported that among the dead were a police officer and his sister.

TV channel N1 reported that the victims were taken to a hospital in Mladenovac and a university hospital in Belgrade.

Three days of national mourning

A new tragedy struck Serbia on Friday as the country enters three days of national mourning following the Belgrade school massacre less than 48 hours earlier by a 13-year-old student who shot and killed eight children and one adult. And in neighboring Bosnia and Herzegovina, there will be 24-hour mourning on Friday.

The 13-year-old attacker was detained shortly after the massacre in the school yard, where he was waiting for the arrival of the police, and placed in a psychiatric hospital.

His father, a well-known doctor, the owner of used weapons, was arrested and today he must testify to the prosecutor. Mother was also brought.

President Aleksandar Vučić spoke of “one of the most difficult days in modern history” for Serbia.

Since the conflicts and bloody collapse of the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, a huge amount of weapons, including military ones, are circulating in the Balkans. million people where shooting ranges are popular.

In April 2013, a villager killed 13 people, including members of his family and neighbors, near Mladenovac, in the same area where yesterday’s massacre took place.

Source: APE-MEB, Tanjug, Reuters.

Author: newsroom

Source: Kathimerini

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