Serbia: Teen Boy Shoots Dead 9 People in Belgrade Classroom, Teacher Wounded

GUWAHATI: A 14-year-old student, using his father’s gun, opened fire killing at least nine people including fellow students and a security guard and a teacher.

According to the interior ministry of Serbia, eight students and a security officer were killed after a 14-year-old boy opened fire on other students and security personnel in a Belgrade classroom on Wednesday morning.

One of the students at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school, whose father is Milan Milosevic, said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired. "She was able to get away. "(The boy) shot the teacher first, and then he began firing at random."

Soon after 08:40 local time (06:40 GMT), police in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school, which is situated in the neighbourhood of Vracar in the centre of the city.

According to a statement from the interior ministry, six children were hospitalized along with the teacher.

In Serbia, where there are strict gun control regulations, such incidents are quite uncommon. However, as a result of wars and unrest in the 1990s, the western Balkans is flooded with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons.

The Serbian government has offered multiple amnesties to encourage gun owners to turn in or register illicit weapons.

At a news conference in Belgrade, officials informed the media that the suspect of the attack had personally called the police.

According to police, the shooter had a "priority list" of the kids he wanted to hit, along with the classes he wanted to enter first, and had planned the attack a month in advance.

The deadliest shooting incidents involved one Nikola Radosavljevic, who killed nine people and injured five others in the eastern town of Jabukovac in July 2007, and Ljubisa Bogdanovic, who killed 14 people in the central village of Velika Ivanca in 2013.

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