Eight die in Serbian railway station roof collapse

BELGRADE, SERBIA — 

Eight radical were killed and 2 hospitalized connected Friday erstwhile the extortion of a railway presumption successful the Serbian municipality of Novi Sad collapsed, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said successful a televised statement.

Local tv stations showed exigency services astatine the scene, including aesculapian unit who were preparing stretchers nearby. Two ample diggers for removing rubble were besides stationed successful beforehand of the station.

"It is an highly hard rescue cognition that volition past for respective much hours. We person astir 80 rescuers from respective towns moving and dense machinery," Dacic said, adding that 2 much radical were inactive nether the rubble but were alive.

Local media said perchance dozens of radical were injured. The mayor's bureau successful the metropolis acknowledged the incidental but did not accidental however galore were hurt.

N1 quality transmission said that bid departures were halted from the presumption astir 70 kilometers northwest of the capital, Belgrade.