Serbian TV station N1, citing Dačić, reported {that a} younger lady was pulled from the rubble after a four-hour rescue operation. Novi Sad Mayor Milan Đurić stated that greater than 30 folks had been injured, N1 reported. Đurić stated in assertion posted to the Novi Sad authorities web site that he arrived on the scene “as quickly as he acquired information in regards to the collapse.”
Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vučević — a former mayor of Novi Sad — paid tribute to emergency employees preventing a “superhuman battle” on what he referred to as “Black Friday” and “one of many hardest days within the postwar historical past of Novi Sad.”
Local politician and fellow former mayor Borislav Novaković urged residents to donate blood within the aftermath of the tragedy. He additionally stated that authorities should take duty for the incident.
Located within the north of the nation on the banks of the Danube, Novi Sad is Serbia’s second-biggest metropolis and an ethnically various cultural hub.