Serbian minister to resign over concrete canopy crash that killed 14 people

Serbia’s government minister for infrastructure and construction Goran Vesic (Darko Vojinovic/AP)

Serbia’s construction minister said that he was stepping down days after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station, killing 14 people and severely injuring three.

Minister Goran Vesic announced his resignation at a hastily called press conference as anger mounted in the Balkan country over the fatal collapse that happened just before noon on Friday in the northern city of Novi Sad.