Serbian police arrest migrants: They come out with heads held low after 3 get killed in clash between 2 groups

After three migrants were killed and one was wounded early this morning in an abandoned building near the village of Horgos, close to the Serbia-Hungary border, the Serbian police "combed" the surrounding area and led all the migrants they found out of the woods.

They could be seen in police vans and on a bus, and a video shows them all sitting in the vehicles with their heads held low.

"In the morning, when the shooting started, people got nervous. They were at a loss as to what was happening and where it was coming from. They didn't know if the shooting was happening inside or outside the village. People didn't know whether to take their children to schools and kindergartens, some did, some didn't," Robert Sors, president of the local community of Horgos, told Tanjug.

He added that kindergartens and schools informed the parents that they do not have to bring their children if they do not want to and that their absence will not be considered as unjustified.

"People were at a loss, what to do, whether to go to work, farmers were unsure weather to go out to work their fields. The MUP (police) and the municipality were informed and they enabled people to go outside. The transport of migrants who have been caught has started and we hope that there will be peace and order in the village," Sors added.

A similar event happened in November of last year, and Sors says that the situation was extremely difficult because it all happened in the middle of the village.

"At the time the police carried out an operation and since then the migrants almost never entered the village. That is good for us, but they are present in the fields, there have been incidents. I think that the police are successfully solving the problem, so people haven't suffered great consequences," he stressed.

Police officers are now positioned along the main roads, as well as the dirt roads that lead to the abandoned buildings of the former agricultural estate Backa in the Horgos area, where three bodies and a wounded man were found this morning.

The search for the perpetrators of the murder, which occurred when migrants clashed amongst themselves, is ongoing.

The shooting was also heard in the town of Subotica, and the locals say that it seemed as if armed migrants were approaching the houses. Shots fired from pistols, as well as bursts of fire from automatic weapons, could be heard non-stop for about half an hour, while the clash lasted several hours in total.

In a video recorded early this morning by a resident of Subotica, which lasts about a minute, continuous shooting can be heard. Some shots sound like firecrackers, while bursts fire can also be clearly heard.

In the early hours of the morning, residents of Subotica also heard sirens and a large number of police vehicles and saw police officers heading towards the scene of the killings.

Last November an armed conflict between two groups of migrants took place in the village of Horgos itself. After that, more than 1,000 illegal migrants were detained and placed in reception centers, and a search of the area resulted in the police seizing weapons, mainly automatic rifles, pistols and a large amount of ammunition.

Six migrants were found at the scene of that shooting, including a 20-year-old man with two gunshot wounds to the chest, the police said at the time.

(Telegraf.rs)