Eight students and a security guard were killed in a school shooting in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday—a rare occurrence in the country, which has stricter gun laws—with police saying a 14-year-old student has been arrested in connection with the attack.
Children wait in front of the Vladislav Ribnikar school after shooting in Belgrade, Serbia, on May ... [+]
The shooting took place at the Vladislav Ribnikar school in central Belgrade, where the suspect allegedly opened fire in a classroom at around 8:40 a.m. local time.
An additional six students and a teacher were injured in the attack and have been taken to the hospital, according to Serbia’s interior ministry.
Milan Milosevic, the father of a student in the class who escaped the shooting, said the suspect “first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly,” BBC News reports, describing the alleged shooter as “quiet and a good pupil” who recently joined the class.
The suspect, who the Guardian notes police have only identified by the initials “KK,” allegedly used his father’s gun in the shooting, and was later arrested in the school’s playground.
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