綜合路透社、英國廣播公司報導，塞爾維亞內政部說明，槍手是七年級男學生，他帶著父親的槍之闖進首都貝爾格勒（Belgrade）的Vladislav Ribnikar小學，「這名少年涉嫌朝著學生與學校警衛開槍」，警方調派所有可用人力趕赴現場處置，逮捕了這名少年。槍手就逮後，警力仍在現場維安、調查。警方起初公布資訊稱凶嫌今年14歲，但後來檢方指凶嫌現年13歲。
第一時間聞訊趕到現場的家長，麵露驚惶之色。（圖／美聯社）
警方指出，當天上午8時40分左右接獲報案電話後，大批警力趕往案發學校。一名正在上體育課的男孩聽見樓下傳出槍聲：「槍聲響個不停。我不知道發生什麽事，大家的手機陸續收到訊息。」
據同學轉述，這名少年走進歷史課教室之後先朝老師開槍，接著把槍口朝向教室裏的同學。一名目擊開槍情況的女學童向自己的父親描述案發當時的情況。女學童的父親轉述，當時人在案發教室裏的女兒趕緊躲起來，凶嫌「先朝老師開槍，接著開始隨便射擊」。
這名女學童的父親聽到新聞報導此事後，立刻趕往女兒就讀的小學：「我看到警衛倒在桌下，還有2名女學童上衣染血。他們說，那個少年是個安靜的好學生，他最近才加入女兒的班級。」
一名在鄰近中學就讀的女學生向塞爾維亞國營電視台RTS描述：「我看到小孩子尖叫飛奔逃出學校，家長到場之後陷入恐慌，後來我聽到3聲槍響。」
貝爾格雷德一家小兒科診所協助救治3名受傷學童，其中一名女童頭部重傷，已接受手術。
現場的影像顯示，警方逮捕涉嫌開槍的少年之後把他帶離學校，少年頭部並未示人，由警方帶上停在街邊的警車。許多學童與家長震驚惶恐，心理學家會提供協助。
德國之聲報導，巴爾幹半島國家很少發生大規模槍擊事件。在塞爾維亞，持有槍枝必須先取得特別許可證，然而在1990年代大小戰爭留下的武器時至今日仍在黑市流通。塞爾維亞上一次發生大規模槍擊案是2015年，國境北部小鎮日蒂什泰（Zitiste）一家咖啡館遭人濫射，5死22傷。
周三這起小學槍擊案令百姓十分震驚，塞國一名新聞記者向《德國之聲》表示：「我們從來沒發生過這種……攻擊兒童的事件，開槍的還是學校裏的學生。」
校園槍響》塞爾維亞少年攜2槍犯案還自製這武器 父親也被捕
甚少發生大規模槍擊案的巴爾幹半島國家塞爾維亞，周三（3日）驚傳校園槍擊案。首都貝爾格勒一所小學7年級男學生持父親的手槍犯案，至少9死7傷，死者之中有8人是學生、1人是校園警衛，槍手已由趕抵校園的警方逮捕。初步搜查發現，凶嫌身懷2把手槍行凶，1個月前就計畫犯案，還把特定學生列為優先攻擊目標。塞國教育部證實，凶嫌曾遭同校學生暴力欺淩。
英國廣播公司報導，案發地點在貝爾格勒的Vladislav Ribnikar小學，塞爾維亞警方在這名7年級少年的書桌搜到一份作案計畫， 不僅開清單列出要攻擊哪些學生，還畫了校門入口與出口位置圖，就連要先進哪一間教室開槍、按照教室編號殺人等細節也包含在內。然而學校老師說，凶嫌平常表現優異，並無心理或情緒問題跡象。
警方說明，凶嫌一走進校門口就掏槍射殺警衛，接著立刻把槍口指向坐在警衛辦公桌的一名女學生，後來走進一間歷史課教室開槍。行凶動機仍待查明。不過，塞爾維亞教育部長證實，開槍的這名少年曾經遭受同儕暴力欺淩。
初步消息指稱凶嫌今年14歲。檢方說，這名少年現年13歲，因此可能不會受到形式責任追究。據塞爾維亞《少年犯和未成年人刑事保護法》，14歲以下兒少不能擔負刑事責任。
警方還透露，凶嫌在進入校園途中留下一個袋子，他在留置袋子的地點製作了4枚汽油彈。凶嫌身上除了有2把手槍，還帶了3枚彈匣，每一枚都裝滿15發子彈。凶槍屬於凶嫌的父親，而且均有許可證。據說凶嫌的父親是當地知名的放射學家。警方以「嚴重危害公共安全」罪嫌逮捕凶嫌的父親。
一名女學生的母親向法新社表示，女兒聽見槍聲時以為是鞭炮聲，「後來她看見警衛中彈倒地，嚇到趕緊衝回教室向老師通報有槍擊案發生，老師立刻把教室的門鎖上、讓學生尋找掩蔽，有些人躲在桌子底下，不知道過了多久，大家才被放出教室」。
塞爾維亞政府宣布，5月5日至7日全國為此一悲劇哀悼3天。8名死亡學生包括7女1男，其中年齡最輕的出生於2009年，大約13到14歲。傷者一共7人，1人為教師，其餘均為學生，4男2女，其中1名女學生頭部重傷命危，1名男學生頸部與胸部中彈、脊椎受傷，已送入開刀房。根據傷患的院所之一、塞爾維亞大學臨床醫學中心表示，教師出生於1970年（年約53歲），手掌與骨盆受傷。
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 in a pre-planned attack, shooting dead eight plus a security guard, officials said, prompting Serbia's president to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership.
Using two handguns that belonged to his father, the 13-year-old fired first at the guard and three girls in a hallway and then shot his teacher and classmates in a history lesson, 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.
Gun ownership is widespread in Serbia, which has witnessed several mass shootings over the past decade, and President Aleksandar Vucic said checks would be stepped up.
As Serbia prepared for three days of national mourning, Vucic announced a moratorium on new gun licenses other than for hunting, revision of existing permits and surveillance of shooting ranges and how civilians store their weapons.
The shooter, who gave himself up to police and at 13 is below Serbia's age of criminal responsibility, will be placed in a psychiatric institution, Vucic told an evening press conference, adding that both his father and mother had been arrested. The boy turns 14 on July 30.
"He was the best student. He had asked for a transfer to another class where he had three friends," Vucic said. "He was waiting for this day. He was at the shooting range with his father three times."
Interior Minister Bratislav Gasic said the suspect's father, had held the guns legally. Hundreds of thousands of weapons remain unaccounted for in Serbia after the Balkan wars of the 1990s.
Wednesday's shooting happened at Vladislav Ribnikar, an elementary school in Vracar, a central Belgrade district.
Evgenija, 14, said she knew the suspected gunman.
"He was somehow silent, and appeared nice and had good grades. Did not know much about him, he was not that open to everyone. I would never expect that this could happen," she told Reuters.
"I heard noises and I thought some boys, some kids were throwing firecrackers.... But then I saw the security guard falling to the ground," she said, adding that she then ran away.
'SHE MANAGED TO ESCAPE'
The interior ministry said eight children and a security guard had been killed and six children had been hospitalised along with the teacher.
"He was great guy, ...a man who loved the kids. I don't know what was in the head of that child who shot him," she told Reuters.
Health Minister Danica Grujicic, a neurosurgeon who witnessed the impact of the Balkan wars, told reporters in tears that Wednesday's events were "perhaps the most horrifying experience I have had as a doctor and as a human being."
Milan Milosevic said his daughter was in the classroom when the attacker burst in.
"She managed to escape. (The boy) ... first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly," Milosevic, who had rushed to the school, told broadcaster N1.
"I saw the security guard lying under the table. I saw two girls with blood on their shirts."
Vracar mayor Milan Nedeljkovic said doctors were fighting to save the teacher's life.
GUN CULTURE
Gun laws are very strict in Serbia but civilian gun ownership is also widespread.
According to the 2018 Small Arms Survey, Serbia globally ranked third with 39.1 firearms per 100 people, and more than 78,000 people have hunting licences.
The survey estimate includes many weapons held illegally since the wars and unrest of the 1990s, despite authorities having issued several amnesties for owners to hand in or register illicit guns.
In the deadliest shooting in Serbia since then, Ljubisa Bogdanovic killed 14 people in 2013. Other mass shootings occurred in 2007, 2015 and 2016. All the assailants were adults.
Luka 17, a student at the high school next to Vladislav Ribnikar, said Wednesday's tragedy had been long in the making.
"This is a mistake that the entire Serbian society is making for over a decade ...this popularisation of violent crime through public and media, through art, through everything," he said.
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Reports on the Western Balkans and Ukraine. Previously worked with the Balkan Investigative Reporting Network as editor-trainer. While serving as a correspondent for the Associated Press covered the war in Kosovo in 1998-1999, the 1999 NATO bombing of Serbia and Montenegro, insurgencies in North Macedonia and the Presevo Valley, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the 2004 Orange Revolution in Ukraine. During the 1990s worked as an editor and correspondent at-large for Belgrade's Radio B92 covering wars in Croatia and Bosnia and peace processes between Israel and the Palestinian territories and in Northern Ireland. Awarded with APME Deadline Reporting Award in 2004 for the capture of Saddam.
