Serbia arrests 11 over fatal train station accident

(ANSA-AFP) - BELGRADE, NOV 21 - Serbian authorities arrested 11 people on Thursday as part of a probe into a train station accident that killed 15 people, prosecutors said. There have been protests and anger nationwide over the collapse on November 1 of a concrete roof at the station in Novy Sad -- which followed lengthy renovation work on the facility. Many are blaming the deaths in the northern city on rampant corruption and lax oversight of construction projects. The Novy Sad public prosecutor's office said 11 people -- who it named only by their initials -- had been arrested on its orders. Prosecutors "collected and thoroughly analysed all the necessary documents, conducted interviews with a large number of people and received an analysis aimed at determining the causes and circumstances of the collapse", the office said. (ANSA-AFP).