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Novi Sad station collapse and Serbian protest movement

In November 2024, mass protests began in Novi Sad after the city's railway station canopy collapsed, killing 16 people and leaving one severely injured. By March 2025, student-led protests calling for accountability spread to 400 cities and towns across Serbia.

On 1 November 2024, 35 m of canopy of the main railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia, collapsed onto people walking and sitting underneath. Photo: Mishyac, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Novi_Sad_railway_station_canopy_collapse.jpg).
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In November 2024, mass protests began in Novi Sad after the city's railway station canopy collapsed, killing 16 people and leaving one severely injured. By March 2025, student-led protests calling for accountability spread to 400 cities and towns across Serbia.

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