A new massacre in Serbia leaves at least eight dead and fourteen injured, the day after a deadly attack in a school

A new massacre killed eight people and injured fourteen on Thursday evening May 4 in Serbia. A gunman opened fire with automatic weapons on a group of people from a moving vehicle near Mladenovac, about 60 km south of Belgrade. A suspect was arrested by police near Kragujevac, a town further south, after a manhunt. This is a man born in 2002, according to the Serbian Interior Ministry.

According to RTS, the assailant first fired on people who were in the courtyard of a school in the village of Dubona, killing several people, including a policeman who was not on duty, and his sister. . He then shot people in two other villages, Malo Orasje and Sepsin, before fleeing. Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic described the incident as“terrorist act”. This new killing took place the day after a 13-year-old student shot and killed eight children and a caretaker in a school in Belgrade.

A large number of firearms have been circulating in the Balkans since the breakup of the former Yugoslavia and the bloody wars of the 1990s. Some 765,000 weapons, including more than 232,000 pistols, are legally registered in Serbia, country of ‘about seven million inhabitants where shooting ranges are popular and where a license is required to own firearms. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic announced on Friday a vast plan to “disarmament” aimed at recovering hundreds of thousands of weapons from the inhabitants of this Balkan country.