Two students wounded in Serbia's first mass school shooting were in critical condition on Thursday, health officials said, as the country prepared for three days of national mourning.
The suspected shooter, a 13-year-old boy, surrendered on Wednesday, police said, after taking two handguns belonging to his father and killing eight students and a security guard in their school in the capital Belgrade. A teacher and six students were wounded. They are being treated at the Tirsova Hospital and the city's University Hospital.
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"The girl who underwent an urgent surgery yesterday due to head injuries... remains in critical condition and in intensive care," Sinisa Ducic, the acting director at the city's Tirsova hospital, told reporters. Mass shootings in Serbia are rare and this was the first-ever school shooting in the Balkan country, prompting the government to announce tougher curbs on gun ownership and to declare three days of national mourning from Friday. President Aleksandar Vucic on Wednesday announced a moratorium on new gun licenses other than for hunting, a revision of existing permits, enhanced surveillance of shooting ranges, and of how members of the public store their weapons.
The suspected shooter used two pistols that belonged to his father, police said on Wednesday. The guard and three girls were shot in a hallway. A teacher and students in a history class were then shot, police said.
