A New Massacre In Serbia Leaves At Least Eight Dead And Thirteen Injured The Day After A Deadly Attack At A School

The shooter opened fire on a group of people with an automatic weapon from a moving vehicle and fled.

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Posted on 5/5/2023 6:14 AM Updated on 5/5/2023 7:58 AM

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Police block the road near the village of Malo Orasje, just outside the town of Mladenovac (Serbia) after the May 4, 2023 massacre killed at least eight people and injured thirteen. (ANDREJ ISAKOVIC / AFP)

Eight people were killed and thirteen injured in a new massacre on Thursday evening, May 4, in Serbia. A gunman opened fire with an automatic weapon at a group of people from a moving vehicle near the town of Mladenovac, some 60 km south of Belgrade, and then fled, state television RTS reported. The police are still looking for the suspect.

Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic called the incident a “terrorist act”. This new killing came the day after a 13-year-old schoolboy shot and killed eight children and a janitor at a school in Belgrade, a murder that deeply shocked the country.

Numerous firearms have circulated in the Balkans since the collapse of the former Yugoslavia and the bloody wars of the 1990s: around 765,000 weapons, including more than 232,000 pistols, are legally registered in Serbia, a country with a population of around seven million. Ranges are popular and for the A license is required for possession of firearms. The Home Office on Thursday announced house checks to check that guns were being held in safes in accordance with current regulations.

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