(2 Nov 2024)
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Novi Sad, Serbia – 2 November 2024
1. Wide exterior of railway station
2. Serbian flags at half mast
3. Emergency workers in front of railway station
4. Close of Serbian flags
5. Damaged exterior of railway station
6. Emergency vehicle in front of railway station
7. Police
8. Candles and flowers near railway station forming makeshift shrine
9. Lit candles near railway station
10. People lighting candles
11. Woman paying respects
12. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Ljubica (No last name given), local resident:
”I feel really bad. I live nearby and yesterday I heard that noise and windows started shaking, we did not know at the moment what happened. It’s very, very sad. So many souls lost their lives, I don’t know what to say. I am shaking.”
13. People lighting candles
14. SOUNDBITE (Serbian) Dragica Camber, local resident:
”It is terrible. This morning I drank my coffee in tears. It is hard that this has happened in our city. Wherever it happens it is bad, but here where I live I find it really hard.“
15. Exterior of railway station
STORYLINE:
Serbian rescuers stopped searching for survivors on Saturday after pulling out 14 bodies from underneath tons of concrete from a fallen canopy at the entrance of a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad.
The dead included a 6-year-old girl from North Macedonia while three people were seriously injured, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said.
Residents of Novi Sad were lighting candles across the street from the railway station in an expression of grief for the lost lives.
"This morning I drank my coffee in tears. It is hard that this has happened in our city. Wherever it happens it is bad, but here where I live I find it really hard,“ said local resident Dragica Camber.
Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said the roof was built in 1964 and that an investigation was underway to determine what happened and who is responsible for the tragedy.
The train station has been renovated twice in recent years, and critics of Serbia’s populist government attributed the disaster to corruption and sloppy renovations. Members of the opposition planned to protest in front of the station Saturday.
Officials have insisted that the canopy had not been part of the renovation work.
Goran Vesic, the government minister for construction and infrastructure, told the state RTS television on Saturday that the probe will determine why.
AP Video shot by Ivana Bzganovic
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