Second mass taking pictures in Serbia leaves 8 lifeless and 13 injured
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t least eight individuals have been killed and 13 individuals injured in a drive-by taking pictures close to Serbia’s capital Belgrade.
The attacker used an automated weapon to shoot randomly at individuals close to the city of Mladenovac which is round 30 miles south of town on Thursday night time, state TV reported.
It later reported that the suspected gunman, a 21-year-old recognized solely as U.B, has been arrested following a manhunt dubbed Operation Whirlwind.
The minister of police, Bratislav Gasic, mentioned he was treating the taking pictures as a terrorist assault.
Radio Television of Serbia (RTS) mentioned the youngest individual reported to have been killed was born in 2008.
They additionally mentioned 600 particular unit officers are concerned within the search operation which is utilizing helicopters and thermal imaging cameras to try to discover the suspect.
The taking pictures got here a day after a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns to kill eight fellow students and a guard at a school in Belgrade.
Dozens of Serbian college students, many carrying black and carrying flowers, paid silent homage on Thursday to friends killed a day earlier.
The college students stuffed the streets across the faculty in central Belgrade as they streamed in from everywhere in the metropolis.
Though Serbia has no scarcity of weapons left over from the wars of the Nineteen Nineties, mass shootings are extraordinarily uncommon.
Wednesday’s faculty taking pictures was the primary within the nation’s trendy historical past. The final mass taking pictures earlier than this week was in 2013, when a warfare veteran killed 13 individuals in a central Serbian village.
The tragedy sparked a debate in regards to the normal state of the nation following a long time of crises and conflicts which has created a state of everlasting insecurity and instability, together with deep political divisions.
Authorities on Thursday moved to spice up gun management, as police urged residents to lock up their weapons and hold them protected, away from kids.