Shootings in a school in Belgrade and a day later in a rural area left 17 people dead and 21 injured

Funerals are being held in Serbia for some of the victims of two mass shootings that happened in just two days this week, leaving 17 people dead and 21 injured, many of them children.

The shootings on Wednesday in a school in Belgrade and on Thursday in a rural area south of the capital city have left the nation stunned with grief and disbelief.

Arrest follows hunt for shooter who fired automatic weapon from moving vehicle in town south of Belgrade

A suspect has been arrested after at least eight people were killed and 13 injured in a second mass shooting in Serbia in as many days.

The man – who has been identified only by his initials UB – was detained near the city of Kragujevac, the interior ministry said.

Police name shooter as Kosta Kecmanović and say he was a pupil at the school who may have plotted attack for a month

A 13-year-old boy opened fire in a Belgrade classroom in an apparently planned attack that killed eight children and a school security guard and injured a further six pupils as well as his teacher.

Police named the shooter as Kosta Kecmanović and said he had been a pupil at the school in the centre of the Serbian capital since 2019. They said he had used two of his father’s guns for the shooting and may have been plotting the attack for a month.