SARAJEVO
\nA child was arrested Wednesday after allegedly shooting a teacher at an elementary school in the northeastern Bosnian city of Lukavac, officials and the family of the victim said.
\nThe incident comes a month after back-to-back shootings rocked neighboring Serbia, including a rampage at an elementary school in Belgrade where a 13-year-old gunned down 10 people \u2014 including nine fellow classmates.
\n\u201cThe child, who is not yet 14, is under police supervision in the premises of the Lukavac Police Department, while firearms and other discarded items are secured until the investigation begins,\u201d the interior ministry of Tuzla canton said.
\nOfficials described the suspect as a former student who had recently moved to another school.
\n\u201cThe child was transferred to another school from the start of the second semester as a result of a disciplinary measure,\u201d Ahmed Omerovic, education minister for Tuzla, told reporters.
\n\u201cToday was the end of classes in all schools in the territory of Tuzla canton,\u201d he added.
\nThe wounded victim is an English teacher and assistant principal at the school, said Ismet Osmanovic \u2014 who is the father of the victim \u2014 according to local broadcaster N1.
\nAccording to the hospital in the nearby city of Tuzla, the victim in the shooting had sustained \u201cgunshot wounds to the neck.\u201d
\n\u201cThe patient was intubated and he is being operated on,\u201d the University Clinic Center of Tuzla said in a statement, according to local media.
\n\u201cThe operation is still ongoing. Doctors told me he was stable,\u201d Osmanovic said.
\nThe shootings in Serbia widely reverberated throughout the Balkans, with makeshift shrines and memorial services held in cities across the former Yugoslavia, including Bosnia.
\nDuring the war in Bosnia in the 1990s, an untold number of weapons were trafficked into the country due to an arms embargo.
\nFollowing the war\u2019s end in 1995, officials repeatedly called for Bosnians to hand over their weapons during a years-long amnesty period, as security forces raided homes believed to harbor weapons.
\nDespite the efforts, a large number of guns are scattered throughout Bosnia.
\nAccording to the Small Arms Survey research group, approximately 31 out of every 100 citizens owns a gun in the Balkan nation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
SARAJEVO A child was arrested Wednesday after allegedly shooting a teacher at an elementary school in the northeastern Bosnian city of Lukavac, officials and the family of the victim said. The incident comes a month after back-to-back shootings rocked neighboring Serbia, including a rampage at an elementary school in Belgrade where a 13-year-old gunned down […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":337720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-337702","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-world"},"yoast_head":"\n