Eight dead after shooting in Serbia

For the second time in two days, a gun attack has rocked Serbia. After the massacre at a Belgrade school, a man shot and killed at least eight people in a village near the Serbian capital.

A man shot a group of people with a rapid-fire weapon in Serbia, killing eight of them. Another 13 people were injured in the evening incident 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 operation was still ongoing early in the morning.

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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 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 incident that night. He described the act as a “terrorist act”. At first he didn’t go into detail.

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.