() — At least eight children and a security guard were killed during a shooting at an elementary school in Belgrade, the Serbian capital, the Serbian Interior Ministry reported.
The Home Office added six children and a teacher were hospitalized.
A 14-year-old boy suspected of opening fire and killing nine people was arrested by authorities in the schoolyard after killing nine people, according to the Serbian Interior Ministry.
“In the shooting that took place this morning at the ‘Vladislav Ribnikar’ Elementary School in Vračar, eight children and a security guard were killed, while six children and a school teacher were injured and are currently being treated at the Emergency Center. in Tiršova. , the Ministry said in a statement.
“A student from this KK school (2009) suspected of committing this crime was found and arrested in the schoolyard,” the ministry said.
“All police forces are still on the ground and are working intensively to clarify all the facts and circumstances that led to this tragedy,” he added.
The Serbian Ministry of Interior said in a statement on Facebook that it was informed at 8:40 a.m. local time (2:40 a.m. ET) that a shooting had occurred at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in Vračar, an area exclusive to the Serbian capital.
“All available police patrols were dispatched to the scene, where they immediately entered the school grounds and apprehended a minor, a seventh grade student who is suspected of having shot multiple times with his father’s gun at the students. and the school security guard.”
“The injured are being treated medically, while the police work to establish the facts and circumstances that led to this event,” says the statement from the Ministry.
