19-year-old dies from injuries four months after concrete awning collapse in Serbian train station
{The teenager} is now the sixteenth fatality within the tragic collapse of a concrete awning at a prepare station in northern Serbia.
A 19-year-old died on Friday in a hospital in Serbia, changing into the sixteenth fatality within the collapse of a concrete awning at a prepare station in November. The tragedy triggered months of anti-corruption protests rattling Serbia’s authorities.
Vukašin Crnčević died greater than 4 months after tons of concrete crashed down on 1 November with out warning, on him and different individuals outdoors the central prepare station within the northern metropolis of Novi Unhappy.
Hundreds of individuals on Friday night marched via the streets of Novi Unhappy and lit candles in a vigil for Crnčević.
Many in Serbia consider the lethal crash was the results of poor renovation work on the station constructing which arose from rampant authorities corruption, negligence and disrespect of the security rules.
Months-long protests demanding accountability over the crash have drawn a whole lot of hundreds of individuals. Day by day protests and blockades have to this point included 15-minute silence for individuals who had died within the catastrophe.
Silent visitors blockades had been held on numerous completely different areas within the Serbian capital, Belgrade, Novi Unhappy and different cities on Friday.
Serbia’s President Aleksandar Vučić introduced plans on Friday to organise counter-rallies, which might additional escalate tensions and probably trigger clashes between teams of protesters.
Within the southern metropolis of Niš, protesters threw eggs and water on the mayor from the ruling Serbian Progressive Social gathering in a Friday protest. Riot police items had been deployed to safe the occasion assembly.
Vučić demanded in a video posted on Instagram that every one “bandits” be arrested. He introduced he would go to Niš, promising to place “all of the thugs” behind bars.
Vučić accuses protesters of “terrorising” individuals in Serbia and of bringing about violence, though the anti-graft protests — that are led by college college students — have been largely peaceable.
The most recent rally in Belgrade final weekend was among the many largest ever held within the Balkan nation, which has an extended report of anti-government demonstrations. Authorities have confronted accusations of utilizing a sonic cannon in opposition to protesters in the course of the commemorative silence on Saturday night, Vučić and different authorities officers have denied this accusation.
Initially, 14 individuals had been killed and three had been injured within the Novi Unhappy station crash. Belgrade’s army hospital, which was treating Crnčević, stated that he died on account of “advanced accidents” and “ensuing issues.”
