There are eight dead and thirteen wounded in the shooting that took place late Thursday evening near Mladenovac, Serbia. The city is located about 60 kilometers from the Serbian capital, where a 13-year-old student staged a brutal bloodbath on Wednesday morning.
The Serbian Minister of the Interior, Bratislav Gašić, described the incident as an act of terrorism. An arrest warrant was issued against the perpetrator, the police sealed off the area where the alleged perpetrator, a 21-year-old man, is believed to be hiding. The search is also carried out with helicopters and thermal cameras.
The attacker first started shooting in the village of Dubona, belonging to Mladenovac, and then continued his rampage in two other villages, Malo Orašje and Šepšin. According to press reports, the shooter lives in Dubona, he shot a young policeman and his sister in the courtyard of the local school, and injured several others. According to the locals, he is a "problematic" person. The press knows that there were two other men in the attacker's car.
Ambulances were first called a little after 11 p.m.
According to reports from the Serbian press, the police are present in large numbers in the village of Dubona on Friday morning, the citizens are also on the streets, they are asking the police what happened, informed the local correspondent of the N1 television.
Public television reports that the alleged attacker's father is a soldier.
Source: They are also looking for the gunman with a helicopter and thermal cameras/SOURCE: AFP/ANDREJ ISAKOVIC
The police launched a special operation under the code name Vihar. A 21-year-old man is on trial. The police have surrounded his suspected location, and police helicopters are circling the area.
In a statement to the N1 portal, the police said that a detailed search of the suspect's hiding place is currently underway, as they were unable to capture the shooter in the dark of night and the difficult terrain. At five in the morning, the combing of the terrain began.
There are also special units of the police, anti-terrorist units, the gendarmerie, the Belgrade Police and the Smederevo Police, about 600 in total.
The attacker's motives are not yet known, some Serbian press reports say that the shooting was preceded by a fight in the school yard, and then the later attacker went home, took a rifle, and then returned and started shooting.
The bloodshed occurred two days after a seventh-grader shot dead eight of his classmates and the school guard, and injured six other students and a teacher in a primary school in Belgrade.
After the South Slavic wars of the 1990s, the civilian population also had a lot of weapons, with an average of 40 firearms per hundred inhabitants in Serbia. School shootings, on the other hand, occur very rarely in the country, and so far they have never been committed by a juvenile. The most serious rampage in recent years happened just ten years ago, when a man murdered 13 of his relatives in the village of Velika Ivanca, located 50 kilometers south of Belgrade.
Source: Magyar Hírlap
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