Flowers, candles and silence as Serbia marks anniversary of school shooting

People gather in front of the school during a memorial ceremony to mark the first anniversary of the shooting (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Hundreds of people have laid flowers and lit candles to commemorate the victims of Serbia’s first-ever school shooting a year ago that left nine children and a school guard dead and six people wounded.

A sombre, silent queue formed on a rainy day outside the Vladislav Ribnikar Elementary School in central Belgrade where a 13-year-old boy is accused of opening fire at his schoolmates with his father’s guns last year.