Police have launched a manhunt and set up roadblocks after the second mass killing in Serbia in two days.
A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by attack near a town close to Belgrade late Thursday, the second such mass killing in Serbia in two days, state television reported. The attacker shot randomly at people near the town of Mladenovac, some 50km (30 miles) south of the capital, the RTS report said early Friday. Police were looking for a 21-year-old suspect who fled after the attack, the report said. The shooting came a day after a 13-year-old boy used his father’s guns in a rampage at a school in Belgrade that killed eight of his fellow students and a school guard. The bloodshed sent shock waves through a Balkan nation unused to mass murders. Though Serbia is awash with weapons left over from the wars of the 1990s, mass shootings are extremely rare. Wednesday’s school shooting was the first in the country’s modern history. The last mass shooting before this week was in 2013, when a war veteran killed 13 people in a central Serbian village. Swastika-wearing gunman kills 15 at Russian school Serbian Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic called Thursday’s shooting “a terrorist act”, state media reported. Special police and helicopter units have been sent to the region as well as ambulances, it added.
