Serbia reels from second mass shooting in two days President Vucic announces tough new gun control measures Latest incident took place in village south of Belgrade Suspect opened fire after altercation in schoolyard. A young man wearing a T-shirt with neo-Nazi symbols killed eight people and wounded 14 in Serbia’s second mass shooting in consecutive days, and he was caught later hiding at his grandfather’s house, authorities said on Friday. The latest rampage took place in the village of Dubona, south of the capital, late on Thursday, as the Balkan country was already mourning nine people killed the previous day in an unprecedented shooting by a 13-year old boy at a Belgrade school. “This is terrible for our country, this is a huge defeat. In two days, so many … killed,” said a village resident named Ivan not far from where the shooting took place. State broadcaster RTS said the suspect had been involved in an altercation in a school yard. He left to fetch an assault rifle and a handgun, opened fire, then continued to shoot at people from a moving car. The man fired at people in two other nearby villages before fleeing, authorities said. Police found him eventually hiding in his grandfather’s house, where they also discovered hand grenades, an automatic rifle and ammunition. “The suspect U.B., born in 2002, has been apprehended in the vicinity of the city of Kragujevac, he is suspected of killing eight people and wounding 14 overnight,” Serbia’s Interior Ministry said in a statement. Police also arrested his grandfather and uncle.
via reuters: Man with neo-Nazi symbols kills 8 in second Serbia mass shooting
siehe auch: Serbia: Suspected gunman who killed eight and injured 14 arrested after second mass shooting in 48 hours The latest shooting comes after a 13-year-old boy opened fire at a primary school killing eight children and a security guard in Belgrade. A gunman suspected of killing eight people and injuring 14 others in a drive-by style shooting in Serbia has been arrested. The attacker initially killed five people and injured six in a village near Smederevo some 40 miles (60km) south of the capital Belgrade on Thursday night. He then proceeded south to the village of Dubona where he shot and killed three more and injured eight. The suspect reportedly forced a taxi driver to drive him to another village 60 miles further south of Dubona where Serbian police arrested him after an all-night manhunt dubbed Operation Whirlwind, involving more than 600 police officers and numerous specialist divisions. (…) Police searched the suspect’s cottage and another building where they found multiple firearms, a host of different calibre bullets and cartridges, a hunting knife, hand grenades, and other weapons