More than 13,000 weapons collected as part of Serbian amnesty

Serbian president Aleksandar Vucic, left, inspected weapons collected as part of the amnesty (Serbian Presidential Press Service via AP)

Serbian authorities have put on display some of the 13,500 weapons they say people have handed in since this month’s mass shootings, including hand grenades, automatic weapons and anti-tank rocket launchers.

The authorities declared a one-month amnesty period for citizens to hand over unregistered weapons or face prison sentences as part of a crackdown on guns following the two mass shootings that left 17 people dead, many of them children.