(3 May 2023)
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Belgrade, Serbia - 3 May 2023
1. Teachers placing candles and flowers near school
2. Teachers lighting candles near
3. Candles
4. People lighting candles
5. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Marija Mandic, teacher from another school:
”I feel terrible. I don’t have any message to send, to say something. There are no words for those families who have lost their loved ones. It is simply irreplaceable. I am only sorry that there are not that many colleagues here. There is no reason for someone to be afraid, or not to be with us here. Children were killed, people were killed. It should not have happened. It happens, but it is human to say that we are sorry and that it is terrible.”
6. People lighting candles
7. People arriving to lay flowers
8. Flowers and candles
9. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ljiljana Mihajlovic, teacher from another school:
”I have been working for 16 years in schools, we have never had anything like this happen. We recognize the problem and we react, but such a big problem we have never had.”
10. Flowers and candles near the school
STORYLINE:
Teachers lit candles outside a Belgrade school on Wednesday where a teenager opened fire and killed eight children and a school guard before being arrested in the school yard.
The 13-year-old shooter drew sketches of classrooms and made a list of people he intended to target in a meticulously planned attack, police said.
He killed eight fellow students and a guard before calling the police and being arrested.
Mass shootings are extremely rare in the Balkan region, although Serbia is awash in guns left over from the wars of the 1990s.
No mass shootings have been reported at Serbian schools in recent years.
The shooter first killed a school guard and then three students in a hallway, according to senior police official Veselin Milic.
He then entered a history classroom that was close to the school entrance and opened fire again, Milic said.
The assailant called police himself when the attack at the school in central Belgrade was over, though authorities had received a call reporting the shooting two minutes earlier.
A father of a student said the shooter entered his daughter’s classroom, firing at her teacher and then her classmates as they ducked under their desks.
Most students at the school were able to flee through a back door, according to a local official.
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