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At least 14 individuals have died and dozens have been injured this Friday after the collapse of a part of the roof construction on the practice station in Novi Sad, Serbia’s second largest metropolis, the Vojvodina area’s prosecutor’s workplace reported.

Around midday, an overhang collapsed over the doorway doorways of the station, the place dozens of individuals had been sitting on benches. Milan Duric, the mayor of Novi Sad, positioned about 70 kilometers northwest of Belgrade, has indicated that greater than 30 individuals have been injured, together with two ladies who had been trapped underneath the rubble and have been freed by 5 rescue groups. hours later. Three of the injured have been hospitalized in very critical situation.

The Government of Serbia has decreed a day of nationwide mourning, whereas the mayor’s workplace of Novi Sad, capital of the Vojvodina area, with slightly below 300,000 inhabitants, has prolonged it to 3 days. The Minister of the Interior, Ivica Dacic, indicated in a primary look that there have been eight lifeless and about two hours later he instructed public tv RTS that the variety of fatalities had elevated to 13. A couple of minutes later, the Vojvodina prosecutor’s workplace has reported that 14 our bodies had been recovered from the rubble.

“It is an extremely difficult rescue operation that will last several more hours. We have around 80 rescuers from various locations working and heavy machinery,” Minister Dacic highlighted. More than 300 residents have responded to the decision of the Blood Transfusion Institute of the Vojvodina area to donate blood.

Novi Sad Train Station, inbuilt 1964, was renovated in 2021 after which restored once more this 12 months, to be formally reopened on July 5. A Chinese state consortium was in command of renovating the station, in accordance with regional tv N1. Construction engineer Vladimir Tijanicha has said on the identical tv that it’s doable that in the course of the renovations some adjustments had been made to the construction, which might have brought about the cantilever to break down.

“This is a black Friday for all of Serbia and especially for Novi Sad,” Prime Minister Milos Vucevic instructed the press. “Although this building was built in 1964, we will work to ensure that those responsible for this tragedy are identified,” the president added.