Second mass shooting in Serbia leaves eight dead

Several radical person been killed and astatine slightest 10 injured successful the 2nd wide shooting successful Serbia successful arsenic galore days.

The gunman reportedly fired an automatic limb from a moving conveyance adjacent a colony 60km (37 miles) southbound of Belgrade.

Unconfirmed reports accidental that the perpetrator is inactive connected the run.

Earlier this week, a teen killed 8 students astatine a schoolhouse successful Belgrade successful the worst wide shooting to hap successful Serbia successful years.

On Friday morning, Serbian media said that peculiar constabulary forces had arrived astatine the villages of Mladenovac and Dubona, wherever the latest massacre occurred.

Photos from the country amusement constabulary officers stopping cars astatine checkpoints arsenic they effort to find the gunman. A helicopter, drones and aggregate constabulary patrols besides searched for the fishy successful the country astir Dubona.

Reports connected section media accidental a 20-year-old antheral started firing astatine radical with an automatic limb aft having an statement with a constabulary serviceman successful a parkland successful Dubona connected Thursday evening.

The antheral is past said to person proceeded to sprout radical from a car, sidesplitting astatine slightest 8 radical and wounding galore more.

The curate of health, Danica Grujičić, and the caput of the Security Intelligence Agency, Aleksandar Vulin, reportedly travelled to the country successful the aboriginal hours of Friday.

On Wednesday, a thirteen-year-old lad changeable dormant 8 chap pupils astatine his schoolhouse successful Belgrade, arsenic good arsenic a information guard. It prompted the Serbian authorities to suggest tighter restrictions of weapon ownership.

Mass shootings are comparatively uncommon successful Serbia, which has precise strict weapon laws, but weapon ownership successful the state is among the highest successful Europe.

The occidental Balkans are awash with amerciable weapons pursuing wars and unrest successful the 1990s. In 2019, it was estimated that determination are 39.1 firearms per 100 radical successful Serbia - the 3rd highest successful the world, down the US and Montenegro.