At least eight students and a security guard are dead after a shooting at a school in Serbia’s capital, Belgrade.
Another six pupils and a teacher were injured in the attack and have been taken to hospital
Police arrested a 14-year-old student at the Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade in connection with Wednesday morning’s attack.
The suspect is alleged to have used his father’s gun, an investigation into the motives behind the incident is underway.
Officers in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school, located in the central Vracar neighborhood.
Officals of the Interior Ministry said police sent all available patrols immediately to the spot and arrested a suspected minor – a seventh-grade student who is suspected of firing several shots from his father’s gun in the direction of students and school security.
Two 13-year-old boys and one girl who were shot have been transferred to a local hospital in Tirsova.
The director of the clinic, Dr Sinisa Ducic, told newsmen the boys were stable, after suffering gunshot wounds to their lower extremities, but he said the girl had suffered a serious head injury and was undergoing an operation.
The father of one of the pupils at the school said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired and managed to escape.
(Editor: Oloyede Oworu)
