(News froms SkyNews in Serbia)
(Short version: 14 year old boy shoots 8 children and a security guard in Belgrade)
Eight children and a security guard have been killed after a 14-year-old boy opened fire on his teacher and other students in a school shooting in Serbia, the country's interior ministry has said.
The seventh-grade student used his father's gun for the attack at the Vladislav Ribnikar elementary school in the capital Belgrade, police added.
Milan Nedeljkovic, mayor of the central Vracar district where the school is located, said the teacher is fighting for their life after being shot.
Six children who were injured are also being treated.
Sinisa Ducic, the acting director of a paediatric clinic in Belgrade treating three of the victims said one, a girl, has a "serious" head injury and was undergoing surgery.
The suspect has been arrested with local media footage showing his head covered as officers led him to a car parked nearby.
Police have identified him only by his initials KK and said he was arrested in the schoolyard.
An investigation into the motive behind the shooting is under way.
Officers in helmets and bulletproof vests have cordoned off the area after the shooting at around 8:40am local time (7:40am UK time).
Reports in Serbia say terrified parents arrived at the school trying to find their children.
A student who witnessed part of the shooting has said she used to be in the same class as the suspect.
She said: "He was a quiet guy, he looked nice, he had good grades, but we didn't know much about him. He was not so open with everybody. Definitely I wasn't expecting this to happen."
Speaking about what she witnessed as the shooting unfolded, she said: "I was downstairs, we had sports class downstairs, I was able to hear the shooting.
"It was non-stop, it was not like one shot at the time, it was shooting without stopping.
"I didn't know what was happening, we were receiving some messages on the phone. Some kids from 7th grade second class were not replying, so we were in real fear."
Astrid Merlini, the mother of a student who witnessed part of the shooting, said: "My child survived this, you can't imagine, she saw a man falling down, shooting, she was running away, she thought the boy with gun would run after her.
"She is in shock, but she agreed to talk, but she is full of adrenaline."
Milan Milosevic said his daughter was in the classroom where the shooting began.
He told broadcaster N1: "She managed to escape. [The boy] ...first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly."
He added: "I saw the security guard lying under the table. I saw two girls with blood on their shirts. They say he [the shooter] was quiet and a good pupil. He recently joined their class."
A girl who attends a high school adjacent to Vladislav Ribnikar told state TV RTS: "I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots."
Mass shootings are comparatively rare in Serbia, which has very strict gun laws.
But the western Balkans are awash with hundreds of thousands of illegal weapons following wars and unrest in the 1990s.
Serbian authorities have issued several amnesties for owners to hand in or register illegal guns.
In the last mass shooting in 2013, a Balkan war veteran killed 13 people in a central Serbian village.
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