NOVI SAD, Serbia –
Serbian rescuers stopped searching for survivors on Saturday after pulling out 14 bodies from underneath tons of concrete from a fallen canopy at the entrance of a railway station in the northern city of Novi Sad.
Serbia’s government declared Saturday a day of mourning as officials promised a thorough investigation into Friday’s collapse of the roof that fell on people sitting below it. The dead included a 6-year-old girl from North Macedonia while three people were seriously injured, Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said.
The train station has been renovated twice in recent years, and critics of Serbia’s populist government attributed the disaster to corruption and sloppy renovations. Members of the opposition planned to protest in front of the station later on Saturday.
Officials have insisted that the canopy had not been part of the renovation …