Shocking!! Teen opens fire in Serbia school killing 8 children and security guard

The boy fired several shots from his father's gun at other students and the school guard. 

In an appalling incident, a teenage boy opened fire at a school in the Serbian capital Belgrade killing eight children and a security guard on Wednesday. 

According to a police statement, the boy fired several shots from his father's gun at other students and the school guard. The police said they received a call about the shooting in the Vladislav Ribnikar primary school around 8:40 a.m.

According to a statement from the interior ministry, six children were hospitalized along with the teacher and eight children and a security guard were all dead.
Officers in helmets and bulletproof vests cordoned off the area around the school.

“All available police patrols were dispatched to the scene, where they immediately went onto the school grounds and apprehended a minor, a seventh-grader who is suspected to have fired several shots from his father’s gun at students and the school security guard,” the statement said.

Doctors are attempting to save the life of the teacher, according to Milan Nedeljkovic, mayor of the school's area in central Vracar.

Casualties are being treated and an investigation into the motives behind the shooting is underway, police said in a statement.

In Serbia, where there are highly strong gun control regulations, mass shootings are quite uncommon. However, as a result of wars and unrest in the 1990s, the western Balkans are overrun with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons.

The Serbian government has offered multiple amnesties to encourage gun owners to turn in or register illicit weapons.