At the Serbian town of Mladenovac, about 60 kilometers south of Belgrade, eight people were shot dead and thirteen injured on Thursday night, local media reported Friday.
The 21-year-old gunman used an automatic weapon on a group of people from a moving vehicle and fled, state television RTS reported.
The shooting took place at three different locations in the city.
Police are looking for the suspect, he added. Numerous police officers and ambulances have been deployed and helicopters fly over the site. The road to the villages of Malo Orasje and Dubona was also closed by the authorities.
Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic called the shooting a “terrorist act”, RTS reported.
Serbia will begin a three-day mourning period on Friday.
The shooting came a day after a 13-year-old student shot and killed eight children and a security guard at a Belgrade school, a killing that deeply shocked the country.
In April, a man shot and killed 13 people, including relatives and neighbours, near Mladenovac.
Source: DN
