Eight children and their guard have been killed in a shooting at a Belgrade school, Serbian police said.
Officers said a seventh-grade student had been arrested following the attack on Wednesday morning in the Serbian capital.
Police in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the Vladislav RIbnikar elementary school in the central Vracar neighbourhood, where the shooting took place.
“I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots,” a girl who attends a high school adjacent to Vladislav Ribnikar told state TV RTS.
Casualties were being treated and an investigation into the motives behind shooting was under way, police said in a statement.
