The Minister of Internal Affairs of Serbia, Ivica Dacic, said today that the Minister of Construction, Transport and Infrastructure, Goran Vesic, will give a statement to the police regarding the tragedy in Novi Sad, in which 14 people died and three were injured, when a part of the railway building collapsed.
"I was informed by the police chief of Novi Sad that they were on their way to Belgrade to take the documents from the relevant ministry. It is the Ministry of Transport and Construction, the minister will give a statement to the police, the director of 'Železnica' and others will also give it. They told me that they received a list from the prosecutor's office of about twenty persons who should give a statement. Only today, we will see further," Dacic told TV Prva.
When asked about political responsibility, he said that he "wouldn't want to get into all that right now" and added: "It is now a matter of political assessment and the personal attitude of an individual".
According to him, there is a possibility that the cause of the accident in Novi Sad was corrosion of the cables that held the canopy, as well as that they are more than sixty years old.
He also stated that there were 17 people under the ruins, but that only three survived and were taken to the hospital, while the others died on the spot.
He specified that 13 dead have been identified, one person has not yet been identified, and one of the victims was from North Macedonia.
As he said, the doctors stated that they had not seen such types of injuries in the victims since the war, because, as estimated, the collapsed concrete blocks weighed about a hundred tons, so that two cranes barely managed to move them.
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