UB, Serbia (AP) — Nine students from southwestern Serbia who have been trekking across the country for nearly two weeks said Monday they’re tired but determined to walk to the country’s north to keep attention focused on a deadly railway station disaster a year ago.
They hope to reach Novi Sad on Nov. 1 when a major rally is planned to mark one year since a canopy collapsed in the northern city’s train station, killing 16 people. They believe the victims died because government corruption led to sloppy renovations at the station.
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