Nine people have died and several have been injured in a Belgrade school when a 14-year-old boy, a student at that institution, fired this morning with a pistol at his classmates and at the teaching and security staff.
According to a statement from the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, among the dead are eight minors and an adult, a member of the institution's security team.
A schoolboy opened fire on students and security guards at a Belgrade school on Wednesday, Serbian police said, adding that they had detained a suspect.
Multiple shots were fired and several people were injured, police initially said in a statement. The suspect is a seventh grade student.
The victims are being treated and the motives for the shooting are being investigated, police said, without elaborating, according to a Reuters breaking news.
Agents wearing helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the surroundings of the Vladislav RIbnikar Elementary School, in the central Vracar neighborhood, where the shooting took place.
"I saw children running out of the school, screaming. Parents came, they were terrified. Then I heard three shots," a girl who attends an institute adjacent to Vladislav Ribnikar told state television RTS.
Mass shootings are relatively rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws. But the Western Balkans are awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons after the wars and riots of the 1990s.
The Serbian authorities have granted several amnesties to owners who turn in or register illegal weapons.
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