Eight people were killed and 13 injured late Thursday in a shooting near a Serbian town about 60 kilometres (37 miles) south of the capital, Belgrade, state-run media reported.
The shooting occurred near Mladenovac as the attacker opened fire with an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle and fled, RTS television reported.
The police were searching for the attacker.
A heavy police presence was deployed, and numerous ambulances rushed to the scene, while helicopters were flying over the area.
On Wednesday, a 13-year-old student shot dead eight peers and a security guard in a Belgrade elementary school, an attack that shocked the Balkan nation.
In 2023, a villager in Mladenovac shot dead 13 relatives and neighbours.
On Wednesday, a 13-year-old student shot dead eight fellow pupils and a security guard in a Belgrade primary school, an attack that shocked the Balkan country.
Police named Wednesday’s shooter as Kosta Kecmanović and said he had been a pupil at the school since 2019.
They said he had used two of his father’s guns for the shooting and may have been plotting the attack for a month.
The head of Belgrade police, Veselin Milić, said the teenager also had two petrol bombs and “made a list of kids he planned to kill and their classes”.
Milić identified the dead pupils as seven girls and a boy born between 2009 and 2011.
Kecmanović is too young to face criminal charges and will be placed in a psychiatric institution. His parents have also been arrested.
The second shooting happened while Serbia is preparing for three days of mourning, beginning on Friday morning.
On Thursday, thousands lined up to lay flowers, light candles and leave toys outside the school to commemorate the victims of Wednesday’s attack.
Tributes included heaps of flowers, small teddy bears, soccer balls.
A grey and pink toy elephant was placed by the school fence along with messages of grief, and a girl’s ballet shoes hung from the fence.
AFP
