Eight children and a security guard have been confirmed dead
after a 14-year-old boy opened fire in a school in Belgrade, Serbia’s capital.
Veselin Milić, Belgrade police spokesperson, said the
suspect called authorities to turn himself in and waited in the schoolyard to
be arrested.
Milić said the head teacher called the police on Wednesday
morning to say a child had entered the school with a weapon and started to
shoot and officers were immediately deployed.
Several children and staff including a 53-year-old teacher
were wounded.
‘IT WAS A PLANNED ATTACK’
Milić said the attacker planned the shooting a month in
advance.
The shooter, on his way into the school, left his bag where
he prepared four Molotov cocktails, the spokesperson added.
The gun recovered from the scene was a 9mm taken from his
father’s flat.
He said the 14-year-old drew up a plan of the school
entrance and exit – found on his desk – and designated priority targets.
The shooter, according to police, also strategised on how to
get into particular classrooms and how to kill each child by classroom number.
Milić said the attacker may have chosen the history
classroom, where the shooting happened because it was near the entrance.
“The sketch looks
like something out of a video game or horror film,” the spokesperson said.
Branko Ružić, Serbia’s education minister, expressed shock
over the incident which occurred in a country where mass shootings are
extremely rare.
He said Serbia is “sadly in this part of the world where things
like these are happening more often”.
“There is evidently a cancer – the influence of the
internet, video games, western values,” the minister said.
“It’s obvious to all of us that we need short-term solutions
and systemic change.”
Three days of mourning have been declared across Serbia.
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