Eight children and a school security officer were killed Wednesday when a teenage boy opened fire at a school in the capital of Serbia, according to police. Six more kids were hurt and taken to the hospital, along with a teacher.
The shooter was identified by the police as K.K., and they claimed that he used his father’s gun to start the shooting. Police reported that he was detained in the schoolyard. He was recognized in a statement as a 2009-born pupil at the central Belgrade school.
Around 8:40 in the morning, according to the police, they received a call about a shooting at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school. The first grade is the first of eight grades in Serbian primary schools.
“I could hear the gunshots. A student who was in a sports class downstairs when the shooting started said, “It was non-stop.”I had no idea what was going on. On the phone, we were getting some texts.
Mass shootings are incredibly uncommon in Serbia and the wider Balkan region, unlike the United States; no school shootings have been reported in recent years. In the most recent mass shooting, a veteran of the Balkan wars murdered 13 people in a town in the center of Serbia in 2013.
But experts have repeatedly expressed concern about the number of weapons that the 1990s wars left behind in the nation. They also point out that such eruptions could be brought on by the continuous economic suffering as well as the decades-long instability brought on by the wars.
There was a disturbance outside the school as police took the suspect, whose head was covered to a car parked in the street. Local television footage from the site showed this.
Due to her age, the kid who heard the gunshot could only be recognized by her initials, E.M. The girl said the suspect was a “quiet guy” and “looked nice.”
The student continued, “He was getting good grades, but we didn’t know anything about him. “He wasn’t always so friendly with people. I certainly didn’t anticipate this to occur.
Milan Milosevic told N1 television that he hurried outside as soon as he heard what had happened. He claimed that his daughter was in a history class when the shooting occurred.
The man stated, “I asked where my child is but no one could tell me at first.” “She called again, and we discovered she was out.”
Milosevic cited his daughter as stating, “He (the shooter) fired first at the teacher and then the kids who ducked under the desks.” She reported that he was a good student and a quiet youngster.
The central Belgrade school was surrounded by police-sealed blocks.
