The roof structure of the railway station in Novi Sad has collapsed, the rescue and fire brigades are working hard on the site to free those trapped under the ruins.

According to the report of the Serbian public service television (RTS), a large number of ambulances and fire engines arrived on the scene, and work machines were also ordered to the railway station after the roof structure of the railway station in Novi Sad collapsed. At least eight people lost their lives and at least thirty were injured in the accident. According to the report of the local RTV correspondent in Vojvodina, a hearse is also at the scene, reports MTI.

The prosecutor of the Novi Sad High Prosecutor's Office arrived at the scene, and the Serbian Railway Infrastructure Company also issued a statement regarding the tragedy, which claims that the ruined part of the railway station was not the subject of renovation works carried out in the framework of the construction of the high-speed railway between Novi Sad and Subotica.

A 14-year-old is also under the ruins

Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic also arrived at the scene and announced in a circle of journalists that those responsible for the tragedy will be found at all costs.

This is one of the most difficult days in Novi Sad's post-war history. A terrible tragedy. I express my condolences to the relatives of the victims and thank everyone who helps and fights to save people and fights superhumanly for all lives

Vucevic said.

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Interior Minister Ivica Dacic informed the journalists that at least 80 people are involved in the rescue work.

"It is an extremely difficult operation that takes several hours. Eight bodies were removed from the ruins"

he said. He said that two people are already being treated in the hospital, one of them had both legs amputated, and his condition is serious.

We got in touch with two people who are under the ruins

- he added, one of them is 14 years old. nova.rs , at four in the afternoon, a person was pulled out from under the ruins, who was immediately taken to the hospital. According to some sources, it is a 14-year-old girl. A little later, at 4:40 p.m., according to the local press, another woman was rescued from the rubble and was immediately taken to a medical facility by ambulance.

Because of what happened, November 2 was declared a day of mourning in the country.

 

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