(3 May 2023)
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Belgrade - 3 May 2023
1. Various of body bags being brought into van
2. Van leaving
NOTE: SHOTS SEPARATED BY BLACK FRAMES
STORYLINE:
A second van carrying several body bags left the grounds of a school in Serbia’s capital where a teenage boy opened fire Wednesday, killing eight children and a school guard.
Six more children and a teacher were injured and hospitalized.
Police said the shooter, who was arrested at the scene, drew sketches of classrooms and wrote a list of people he intended to target,
A father of a student at the school in central Belgrade said the shooter entered his daughter’s classroom, firing at her teacher and then her classmates as they ducked under their desks.
Most students were able to flee through a back door, according to a local official.
A senior police official said the shooter, identified as Kosta Kecmanovic, called police himself when the attack was over.
Earlier, police said Kecmanovic was a student at the Vladislav Ribnikar school and was born in 2009. They said he used his father’s gun.
Mass shootings are extremely rare in Serbia and in the wider Balkan region; none were reported at schools in recent years. In the last mass shooting, a Balkan war veteran in 2013 killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.
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