Eight people were killed and at the least 10 injured in a shooting in the town of Mladenovac, south of Belgrade, local media reported.
The shooting takes place lower than 48 hours after 13-year-old boy shot nine people and wounded seven at a faculty in Belgrade before turning himself in.
Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic described the newest shooting as a “terrorist act”, Serbian news website Telegraf reported, without giving further details.
Serbian police launched a manhunt, dubbed Operation Whirlwind, for a 21-year-old suspect identified only as UB
In keeping with local media, after an overnight altercation in a faculty yard near Mladenovac, 26 miles south of Belgrade, the suspect returned with an assault rifle, opened fire and continued to shoot at random people from a moving automobile.
State broadcaster RTS said a police officer and his sister were among the many dead.
About 600 Serbian policemen, including the elite Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) and military police, have launched a manhunt, dubbed Operation Whirlwind, for a 21-year-old suspect identified only as UB, RTS reports.
Before dawn, on the outskirts of the village of Dubona near Mladenovac, a Reuters witness saw armed police establishing a checkpoint and searching traffic.
![Serbian police launched a manhunt, dubbed Operation Whirlwind, for a 21-year-old suspect identified only as UB](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/2023-05-04T235652Z_1465679993_RC2ZR0AR5G59_RTRMADP_3_SERBIA-SHOOTING-TOWN.jpg?w=1024)
![The shooting came less than 48 hours after a 13-year-old boy shot and killed nine people and wounded seven at a school in Belgrade before turning himself in.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/2023-05-05T001049Z_2113642240_RC20S0AQ5S54_RTRMADP_3_SERBIA-SHOOTING-TOWN.jpg?w=1024)
“It’s dark in here, we’re on the lookout for him in this area, taking all precautions, an assault rifle is a serious threat,” said a policeman involved in the manhunt by phone.
A helicopter, drones and diverse police patrols also looked for the suspect in the hills and forests around Dubona.
A NATION IN MOURNING
N1 TV reported that the injured were taken to the hospital in Mladenovac and the University Hospital in Belgrade.
The Balkan nation begins three days of official mourning on the Friday after the primary mass shooting in school on Wednesday.
The suspected shooter, a 13-year-old boy, took his father’s two pistols to kill eight students and a security guard in a corridor and history class at their school in the capital Belgrade.
![About 600 Serbian policemen, including the elite Special Anti-Terrorist Unit (SAJ) and military police, have launched a manhunt, dubbed Operation Whirlwind, for a 21-year-old suspect identified only as UB, RTS reports.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/2023-05-05T001140Z_1428687040_RC20S0A2WJDA_RTRMADP_3_SERBIA-SHOOTING-TOWN.jpg?w=1024)
A whole bunch of scholars with candles and flowers gathered in the streets around the varsity on Thursday evening as churches planned memorial prayers.
Dozens of highschool teachers gathered in front of the Ministry of Education in central Belgrade on Thursday, demanding improvements in school safety and the education system.
Serbia has ingrained gun cultureespecially in rural areas, but in addition strict gun control laws. Automatic weapons are illegal and through the years authorities have offered several amnesties to those that give up them.
![According to local media, after an overnight altercation in a school yard near Mladenovac, 26 miles south of Belgrade, the suspect returned with an assault rifle, opened fire and continued to shoot at random people from a moving car.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/05/2023-05-05T012217Z_1228280049_RC21S0ATGR49_RTRMADP_3_SERBIA-SHOOTING-TOWN.jpg?w=1024)
Following the Belgrade school shooting, the Serbian government implemented a two-year ban on latest gun permits, revision of existing permits, and inspections of firearms storage by gun owners.
Even so, the country and the remaining of the Western Balkans are flooded with military-grade weapons and ammunition left in private hands after the wars of the Nineteen Nineties.