Serbian police have arrested three teenagers for possession of firearms or death threats, after massacres perpetrated by two youths this week left 17 dead and 21 injured in the country.
Following a complaint from a neighbor, the police arrested in Vranje, in southern Serbia, a 17-year-old teenager who kept a gun at his home, according to the local news portal B92.
Another 14-year-old boy was detained in Sremska Mitrovica, in the east of the country, after posting on social media an announcement that he "will do the same" as the 13-year-old student from Belgrade who killed nine people last Wednesday in a school, including eight students.
In Knjazevac, in southeastern Serbia, a 15-year-old boy was arrested by police after sending a death threat to a classmate.
Following Wednesday's massacre at a Belgrade school, a 21-year-old opened fire on passers-by two days later in a town south of Belgrade, killing eight. The two attackers were detained by Serbian police.
The president of Serbia, the populist Aleksandar Vucic, announced this Friday the drastic reduction in the number of firearms in his country, which according to some studies ranks third in the world in terms of the number of weapons per inhabitant.
