(3 May 2023)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade - 3 May 2023
1. Body bag being brought into van
2. Ambulances driving
3. Another body bag being brought into van
4. Wide of police, people at scene
5. Another body bag being brought into van, doors of van closed
6. Van leaving
STORYLINE:
Body bags were taken out of a school in Serbia's capital where a teenage boy opened fire Wednesday, killing eight children and a school guard, police said.
Six more children and a teacher were injured and hospitalized.
Police identified the shooter by his initials, K.K., and said he had opened fire with his father's gun.
He was arrested in the school yard, police said.
A statement identified him as a student at the school in central Belgrade who was born in 2009.
Police said they received a call about the shooting at the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school around 8:40 a.m.
Police sealed off the blocks around the school, in the center of Belgrade.
Unlike in the United States, mass shootings in Serbia and in the wider Balkan region are extremely rare; none were reported at schools in recent years.
In the last mass shooting, a Balkan war veteran in 2013 killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.
Experts, however, have repeatedly warned of the number of weapons left over in the country after the wars of the 1990s.
They also note that decades-long instability stemming from the conflicts as well as the ongoing economic hardship could trigger such outbursts.
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