At least 8 dead and 13 wounded in a new shooting in Serbia

At least eight people have died and another 13 have been injured in a new shooting perpetrated during the night of Thursday in the Serbian municipality of Mladenovac, located just over 50 kilometers from Belgrade.

According to the world, the attacker opened fire with an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle (a Mercedes, according to Hello!) and fled. The police have cordoned off the area where they suspect he is hiding and, according to the the suspect is a 21-year-old man.

The Serbian medium danas reports that more than 60 police officers and numerous ambulances have come to the scene. Also, there are still helicopters flying over the area and nearby towns looking for the shooter.

[Un joven de 13 años mata a tiros a 9 personas, entre ellas 8 estudiantes, en su colegio de Belgrado]

The suspect was last seen in the village of Šepšin, located less than half an hour’s drive from Mladenovac, and the police are also monitoring that area. According to nova.rsthe authorities are checking “every house, as well as any abandoned building.”

The Minister of the Interior, Bratislav Gasicalready classified the crime as an act of terrorism.

Two shootings in two days

The event occurred just two days after the shooting committed by a 13-year-old boy in a Belgrade school and which has shocked the country. The young man killed nine people, including eight students, and had been planning the attack for a month. Furthermore, it was he who called the police to arrest him after committing the crime.

Although Serbia is a country with a high rate of firearm possession, mass shootings are extremely rare. However, the events that have occurred in recent days have generated an important social and political debate on the situation of instability and insecurity.

Experts have repeatedly warned of the danger posed by the number of weapons in a deeply divided country like Serbia, where convicted war criminals are glorified and violence against minority groups often goes unpunished.

“We have had too much violence for too long,” psychologist Zarko Trebjesanin told television. N1in statements collected by A.P. News. “Children copy models. We need to remove the negative role models… and create a different value system,” she added.