Thousands of Serbians blocked the main boulevard of the central city Kragujevac Saturday, the latest in a series of student-led protests over last November's deadly collapse of a train station roof.
The increasing pressured being applied by the university student-led movement has already forced the resignation of several high-ranking officials, including prime minister Milos Vucevic at the end of January.
Crowds gathered in the city centre on the start of Serbia's national Statehood holiday calling for greater government accountability and reforms. Protesters filled the streets well into the afternoon, waving flags marked with bloody handprints -- the protests' logo.
The Kragujevac blockade is the third day-long city demonstration, after Belgrade and Novi Sad a few weeks ago. The collapse of the station roof in Novi Sad in November last year, which killed 15 people, followed extensive renovations to the building in the northern city.
The deaths fuelled long-standing anger over corruption and demands for accountability.
At 10:52 GMT, the time of the tragedy, protesters observed 15 minutes of silence to honour the victims.
The blockade was planned to last past midnight, which marks the anniversary of the first Serbian Constitution in 1835, one of the most progressive in Europe at the time.
Belgrade chemistry student Nikola Knezevic, 25, said it was important to hold protests beyond the capital.
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