Heart-wrenching cries echoed as funerals were held in Serbia on Saturday for some of the victims of two mass shootings that happened just a day apart this week, leaving 17 people dead and 21 wounded, many of them children.
BELGRADE, Serbia —
Classmates and hundreds of other people cried inconsolably as one of the girls killed in the school shooting was laid to rest in Belgrade in a small white coffin that was covered with heaps of flowers. Overwhelmed by grief, the girl’s mother could barely stand. One girl collapsed during the service amid screams and sobbing.
Some 50 kilometers to the south, a mass funeral was held in the small village of Malo Orasje for five young men who were gunned down in the shooting rampage on Thursday evening. The suspect, identified as Uros Blazic, told prosecutors during questioning on Saturday in the central town of Smederevo that he shot people he didn’t personally know because he wanted to sow fear among residents, RTS state television reported. He faces charges of first-degree murder and unauthorized possession of guns and ammunition.
The school shooting left six children and a teacher wounded, while 14 people were wounded in the villages of Malo Orasje and Dubona. The dead in Dubona included a young, off-duty policeman and his sister.
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