School shooting in Serbia leaves 8 children dead

The teacher who was wounded in the Belgrade school shooting, along with six other students, is 53 years old, according to CNN affiliate N1.

The female teacher and the wounded school children have been admitted to the emergency center at the University Clinical Center of Serbia, N1 reported. All patients are in surgery at the moment, according to the N1 website.

One of the wounded students – a schoolgirl –  is undergoing surgery after she sustained life-threatening injuries during the attack, according to officials.

The father of one of the pupils at a Serbian school where a student opened fire early Wednesday said the suspect "started shooting randomly."

Milan Milosevic said his daughter was in the class where the gun was fired, Reuters reported.

"She managed to escape. (The boy) ... first shot the teacher and then he started shooting randomly," he told broadcaster N1, according to Reuters.

"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," added Milosevic, who rushed to the school after the shooting.

Nine people were killed and several others injured following the school shooting in Belgrade. The suspect, who authorities said was a student at the school,  is in custody.

"I saw kids running out from the school, screaming. Parents came, they were in panic. Later I heard three shots," a girl who attends a high school adjacent to Vladislav Ribnikar told state TV RTS, Reuters reported.

This post has been updated with more details about the shooting.

One of the children who sustained life-threatening injuries following Wednesday's school shooting in Belgrade is now undergoing surgery, according to CNN affiliate N1. 

Seven people were left injured after a student opened fire at an elementary school in the Serbian capital, including six children and one teacher.

A teenage boy suspected of opening fire at the school he attended in Belgrade was arrested by authorities in the school's yard, according to officials.

"A student of this school K. K. (2009) who is suspected of having committed this crime was found and arrested," Serbia's Interior Ministry said in a statement. 

"All police forces are still on the ground and are intensively working to shed light on all the facts and circumstances that led to this tragedy," the statement added. 

This post has been updated with more details about the shooting.

The deadly school shooting in Belgrade has left seven people injured, according to Serbia's Interior Ministry.

Six children and one teacher were hospitalized after sustaining wounds from the attack, according to the ministry. 

The shooting took place at the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Vračar.

The teenage suspect in the Belgrade school shooting was seen being led away by police.

Serbian authorities say the suspect in the deadly shooting used a weapon belonging to his father in the attack.

The Serbian Ministry of Internal Affairs said they were informed at 8:40 a.m. local time (2:40 a.m. ET) that a school shooting had happened at the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in Vračar, an upscale area of the Serbian capital.

“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 ministry said in a statement on Facebook.

At least nine people have been killed, including eight children, after a student opened fire at an elementary school in the Serbian capital Belgrade on Wednesday, according to the Tanjug news agency.

A 14-year-old boy is in custody following the shooting.

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