A man shot a group of people with a rapid-fire weapon in Serbia, killing eight of them. 13 other people were injured in the incident on Thursday evening in the village of Dubona, 50 kilometers south-east of Belgrade, state news agency Tanjug reported, citing police.
The suspected shooter then fled the scene. The police launched a massive manhunt and found his whereabouts. A large number of police forces surrounded the 21-year-old man, it said. The action was still ongoing as of Friday morning. At the scene, police blocked the road to the villages of Malo Orasje and Dubona, a photographer told AFP news agency. Numerous police and rescue vehicles were deployed, and helicopters circled the area.
The attacked people sat unsuspectingly on a bench in the center of the village, according to the website of the daily newspaper “Blic”. According to this report, the perpetrator shot her from a moving vehicle.
Nothing was initially known about the motive for the bloody deed. According to unconfirmed media reports, a police officer and his sister were among the victims. Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic went to the scene of the events on Friday night. He described the act as a “terrorist act”. At first he didn’t go into detail.
Relatives gathered in front of the emergency room in Belgrade, where at least eight injured people were admitted, as reported by the N1 television station.
Serbia was shaken by a massacre in a Belgrade school on Wednesday. A 13-year-old student had shot eight classmates and a security guard. The police then took him into custody. Due to his age, the perpetrator is not yet of criminal age in Serbia. (dpa / AFP)
