A teenager in Belgrade kills 8 children and a security guard at a school in Serbia.

There was a shooting at a school in the capital of Serbia.

A teenager opened fire in the middle of a school on May 3, killing eight children and a school security guard, police said.

Six more children and a teacher were injured and hospitalized. The police identified the shooter by his initials, K.K., and reported that he opened fire with his father's weapon. He was arrested on the school grounds. He is a student at a school in central Belgrade and was born in 2009, according to a statement.

Rare cases of mass shootings in the Balkans

The police received a call about a shooting at Vladislav Ribnik Primary School around 8:40 AM. Mass shootings in Serbia and the Balkans are extremely rare, and there have been no reports of such incidents in schools in recent years. However, experts have repeatedly warned about the large amount of weapons left in the country after the wars of the 1990s.

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They also note that decades of instability related to conflicts, as well as ongoing economic difficulties, could trigger such outbreaks.

Chaos near the school

Local media showed the chaos outside the school as police led away a suspect, whose head was covered, to a car parked on the street. Milan Milosevic, the father of one of the students who was in history class during the shooting, told N1 television that he ran out when he heard what had happened. "I asked where my daughter was, but at first, no one could tell me anything," he said. "Then she called, and we found out that she was safe."

“He (the shooter) first shot the teacher, and then the children who were hiding under the desks,” Milosevic quotes his daughter. “She said he was a quiet boy and a good student.”