her police Serbia Suspected perpetrator of bloody shootout arrested attack Near BelgradeThis is reported by the state television RTS, without disclosing details. This is the second tragedy in the country in just 48 hours.

As a result of the attack, at least 8 people were killed and 14 others were injured.

“After a lengthy search, Interior Ministry officials detained Mr. B., born in 2002, in the Kragujevac district of central Serbia, the Interior Ministry said in a statement, adding that the investigation was ongoing.

In addition, the ministry clarifies that all the victims are under treatment. According to the RTS network, two of them are in the Dragish Misovich hospital in critical condition. They underwent surgery overnight, but their lives are still in danger.

According to local media, the suspect got into a fight late last night in a schoolyard in the village of Dubona near Belgrade and left, but returned with a machine gun and a revolver and started shooting. He then got into a car and continued indiscriminately shooting at people from the car he was driving in two other villages.

According to unofficial information from the Nova TV channel, before his arrest, Mr. criminal broke into a taxi and at gunpoint forced the driver to take him to the city Vinishtewhere he allegedly has a relative and planned to hide from the police.

There are even suspicions that the criminal had accomplices, since, according to witnesses, he shot from the back seat.

“Terror Attack”

About 600 Serbian police officers, members of the special anti-terrorist unit and the gendarmerie were involved in the operation to apprehend the suspect, according to the state network RTS, which added that a helicopter, drones and several police patrols were mobilized to track him. down.

The Ministry of Health again asked to donate blood for the victims, RTS reports.

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

The RTS network said the dead include a police officer and his sister, and the youngest victim was 15 years old.

Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic is expected to address the nation around 10:30 local time (11:30 Greek time).

Second tragedy in 48 hours

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.

It is noted that NBA superstar Luka Doncic announced that he personally pays for the funeral expenses of students killed in the attack.

Attack on school and on Thursday

The knife attack also took place yesterday Thursday at another school in the Serbian capital.

This was reported by the press service of the municipality. Ruger Boscovich, a former student who was in the school yard, stabbed another child in the shoulder. Three teachers managed to take the girl under control and take away the knife from her, but as a result one of them was cut.

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.

^{According to Reuters, Tanjug}