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Police cordon off Belgrade school after pupil opens fire, killing nine people

Guardian, 03 May 2023
A 14-year-old boy has opened fire in a Belgrade classroom, killing eight children and a school security guard, the Serbian interior ministry has said.
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Police said the shooter has been a pupil at the school in the centre of the Serbian capital since 2009. He used his father’s gun for the shooting at about 8.40am on Wednesday and was later arrested in the school playground. Mass shootings in Serbia, and in the wider Balkan region, are extremely rare. In 2013 a Balkan war veteran killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.

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