The attacker used an automatic weapon to shoot randomly at people near the town of Mladenovac, some 50 kilometers south of the capital, the RTS report said early Friday. Police were looking for the 21-year-old suspect, who fled after the attack, the report said.On Wednesday in Belgrade, a 13-year-old boy used his father's guns in a school shooting rampage that killed eight of his schoolmates and a school guard.
The Balkan nation is struggling to come to terms with what has happened. Though awash with weapons left over from the wars of the 1990s, mass shootings still have been extremely rare - and this is the first school shooting in Serbia's modern history. The boy, who had visited shooting ranges with his father and apparently had the code to his father's safe, took two guns from the safe where they were stored together with the bullets, police said on Wednesday.
Serbian teachers' unions announced protests and strikes to demand changes and warn about a crisis in the school system. Authorities shrugged off responsibility, with some officials blaming Western influence rather than a deep social crisis in the country. Those killed were seven girls, one boy and the school security guard. One of the girls was a French citizen, France's foreign ministry said.
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