06 May,2023 07:58 AM IST | Belgrade | Agencies
Candles being placed for victims of the school shooting. Pic/AP
A shooter killed at least eight people and wounded 13 in a drive-by attack near a town close to Belgrade late on 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 50 kilometers (30 miles) south of the capital, the RTS report said early on Friday. The police were looking for a 21-year-old suspect who fled after the attack, the report said. A suspect was arrested on Friday.
Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic called Thursday's shooting an attack on the whole nation and said the person arrested wore a T-shirt with a pro-Nazi slogan on it. The shooting came a day after a 13-year-old boy killed eight of his fellow students and a guard at a school in Belgrade.
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