Thousands of Serbians demand prime minister's resignation following deadly roof collapse

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Surveillance camera footage of the collapse showed the massive canopy on the outer wall of the station building crashing down on the people sitting below on benches or going in and out.  Government officials have promised full accountability.

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00:00Thousands of anti-government protesters marched in the Serbian capital, demanding the resignation

00:08of top officials after a concrete roof at a railway station collapsed and killed 14

00:14people earlier this month.

00:16Those rallying in Belgrade blamed the collapse of the roof on rampant corruption and sloppy

00:21renovation work on the station building in the northern Serbian city of Novi Sad.

00:27The several thousand protesters demanded that the Serbian Prime Minister and his government

00:33step down and that those responsible for the collapse be arrested.

00:37Authorities have opened an investigation and the Serbian construction minister resigned

00:42last week, but no one has yet been charged with the incident which occurred on November

00:481st.

00:49Serbian government officials have promised full accountability but there is widespread

00:53skepticism as the populace control both the police and the judiciary.

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