Belgrade school shooting: boy kills 9 in planned attack
BELGRADE, May 3 (Reuters) - A boy gunned down fellow pupils in a Belgrade school on Wednesday morning in a pre-planned attack, shooting dead eight plus a security guard and wounding seven others, Serbian officials said.
Using two handguns that belonged to his father, the 14-year-old fired first at the guard and three girls in the hallway and then entered a history class and shot the teacher and classmates, police said. The teacher and six pupils were hospitalised, some with life-threatening injuries.
Veselin Milic, head of Belgrade police, said the attacker had two guns and two petrol bombs and had planned everything carefully. "He even had … names of children he wanted to kill and their classes," he told a press conference.
Police said a seventh-grade student had been arrested after confessing to the shooting. An investigation into the motives for the attack was under way, and Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said the suspect's father had also been arrested. …
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