How teenager shot 8 pupils, security guard dead in Serbia school

A -14-year -old boy allegedly opened fire at a school in Serbia’s capital Wednesday, killing eight children and a school guard, police said.

Six more children and a teacher were injured and hospitalized.

The shooter was identified by his initials, K.K. and he reportedly used his father’s gun.

He was arrested in the school yard, police said.

A statement identified him as a student at the school in central Belgrade who was born in 2009.

Police said they received a call about the shooting at the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school around 8:40 a.m. Primary schools in Serbia have eight grades, starting with first grade.

“I was able to hear the shooting. It was non-stop,” a student who was in a sports class downstairs when the gunfire erupted. “I didn’t know what was happening. We were receiving some messages on the phone.”

Serbian Interior Ministry on Wednesday reported that the death toll in the school shooting in Belgrade amounts to nine, and seven more people have been injured.

Earlier, police reported a shooting at a school in the Vrachar municipality in the centre of the Serbian capital.

According to the police report, the shooter was suspected to be a 14-year-old teenager, who could have used his father’s pistol in committing the crime.

Earlier a police statement said “in the shooting at the Vladislav Ribnikar school in the Vrachar district earlier this morning, eight children and a security guard were killed.

Again, six children and a teacher were wounded and were placed in an ambulance centre and a children’s hospital.’’(Sputnik/NAN)