Protesters demand arrests over train station roof collapse that killed 14 people in Serbia

BELGRADE, Serbia: Angry protesters on Sunday left red handprints at the entrances of government buildings in the Serbian capital to demand the arrest...

BELGRADE, Serbia: Angry protesters on Sunday left red handprints at the entrances of government buildings in the Serbian capital to demand the arrest of officials, two days after a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station, killing 14 people and injuring three.

Police formed a cordon outside the seat of the Ministry of Construction and Infrastructure in central Belgrade as several thousand people called for ranking government ministers, including Prime Minister Milos Vucevic, to immediately step down.

"Arrest, arrest!” chanted the crowd. They shouted at police officers outside the building that they are "guarding murderers” and that "your hands are bloody," while holding banners reading "corruption kills” and "we are all under the canopy!”

"Everywhere you can, leave bloody hands so they know their hands are bloody. In every city in Serbia, everywhere you can,” opposition political activist Nikola Ristic said.

The concrete canopy that ran along the front of the railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad collapsed suddenly on Friday, landing on people who were sitting on benches or passing through the building’s entrance. Surveillance camera footage showed the canopy crashing down in seconds.