Flowers for victims are laid outside the Vladislav Ribnikar school in Belgrade, Serbia, Wednesday, May 3, 2023.

WATCH: Belgrade residents light candles and lay flowers in honour of school shooting victims

Belgrade residents have lit candles and laid flowers the day after a deadly school shooting in the Serbian capital.

Belgrade residents have lit candles and laid flowers the day after a deadly school shooting in the Serbian capital.

The incident killed eight children and a security guard in what President Aleksandar Vucic called "one of the most difficult days" in the country's recent history. 

Police have detained a 13-year-old suspect in connection with the shooting and have arrested his parents. 

"I cried all day yesterday," says Mileva Milosevic, whose son used to be enrolled in the school.