Serbia: Man Eats Cakes in Well-Known Bakery Then Blows Himself Up
In a well-known bakery in the center of Belgrade, Serbia on Monday, a man ate cakes then detonated a bomb that killed him leaving no other people injured and killed except for himself.
According to CNN, the unidentified man simply walked into the bakery owned by Bartislav Petkovic, who was a former Minister of Culture. After he indulged on two cakes, he asked all the employees inside and one customer to leave the area.
According to Petkovic's wife, Jelenka Petkovic, an employee asked why the customer was asking them to leave. The perpetrator sad he was carrying an activated bomb. The said employee, along with another who was standing near the door, immediately sprang out of the shop.
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Once the employees were out of the bakery, they heard a loud bang and while the building's damages weren't so serious compared to other suicide bombing attacks, people around the area fear that the perpetrator may be a terrorist.
On the other hand, the Serbian Interior Ministry clarified that the said attack cannot be tagged as a similar one from terrorists since the unidentified man did not hurt others. It should be noted that he asked the people inside to get out of the cafe before he blew himself up.
The man's identity and motives are still unknown but according to The Associated Press, the bomber was said to be at around his 50s. He reportedly laid himself down on the floor before activating a hand grenade that was attacked to his body.
Witnesses around the area said they heard a sound that seemed like the noise coming from two cars crashing into each other, while some others didn't realize that something was wrong and a man had killed himself until the police arrived.
The outlet explains that hand grenade explosions aren't unusual in cafes and nightclubs and Serbia is just one of the areas that has developed the trend after Balkan wars in the 1990s emerged.
