Two people aged 21 and 23 have had surgery and remain in a critical condition. This is a disaster.”Īll those admitted to hospital were born after 2000, the Serbian broadcaster RTS reported. First those kids in Belgrade, and now this. This was where the kids were hanging out and … she was shot in the head. “It did not even occur to me that something like this could happen. “We heard gunshots in the evening, but I thought it was fireworks, children fooling around,” Zvonko Mladenovic, a Dubona resident whose granddaughter had been injured, told AFP. He had then moved on to the nearby villages of Malo Orašje and Šepšin. The shootings had reportedly begun when he opened fire at a schoolyard in the village of Dubona, killing a police officer, with whom he had reportedly argued, and his sister.

The man had seemingly fled 90km to the city of Kragujevac after opening fire with an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle in multiple locations near the town of Mladenovac late on Thursday. The president vowed that the suspect would be convicted and “will never again see the light of the day”. Vučić said the gunman had been wearing a T-shirt with neo-Nazi symbols as he fired randomly. The alleged gunman was in possession of four grenades, a Kalashnikov and a large amount of ammunition. The driver had subsequently tipped off authorities, Vučić said. He had been found at the home of a relative after hijacking a taxi. On Friday morning, a man identified only by his initials, UB, was arrested near the city of Kragujevac, 141km south of the capital Belgrade, over the shootings on Thursday night. A large number of weapons entered the black market after the wars in the Balkans that followed the breakup of Yugoslavia.

There are more than 760,000 registered firearms in the country of roughly 6.8 million people and many more are held unofficially. Mass shootings are rare in Serbia but there is a high level of gun ownership. Vučić described the 48 hours of bloodshed as an “attack on our entire country” as he announced that registered and illegal arms would be seized in what he said would amount to “an almost complete disarming of Serbia”.

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