The march from the capital Belgrade to the northern city of Novi Sad is part of the demonstrations launched by university students across Serbia to demand accountability for the deaths of 15 people in a train station awning collapse last November.
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00:00Hundreds of Serbian university students started an 80-kilometer march on Thursday as part
00:07of expanding anti-government protests.
00:11They will march from Belgrade to the northern city of Novi Sad, where in November 15 pupils
00:16were killed after a concrete canopy collapsed on them at a railway station.
00:22On Saturday, a 24-hour blockade of bridges is planned in the city.
00:28So this is just another way of showing how radical we are and how we are not stopping
00:32this and we are going to pursue this until the end.
00:38The students are demanding accountability for the incident and believe government corruption
00:42during the construction phase of the train station caused the building to collapse.
00:49The demonstrations are the biggest Serbia has seen in years and for the first time are
00:53appearing to seriously challenge the Balkan country's powerful populist leader Aleksandar
00:58Vucic.
01:01The weeks-long protests already forced the resignation of Serbia's prime minister this
01:05week.