Police detain 37 people for disturbing public order outside Serbian parliament building

BELGRADE - Serbian police have identified and detained 37 people involved in "disturbances of public order and peace and in causing incidents during an unregistered public gathering" outside the Serbian parliament building in downtown Belgrade on Sunday evening, the Interior Ministry said.

"The police are working intensively on identifying and finding other perpetrators who were threatening the security of citizens and public property through their actions," it said in a statement.

At Sunday's protest rally in support of Dijana Hrka, whose son was killed in last November's deadly roof collapse at the Novi Sad railway station, traffic in an intersection near the parliament building was blocked and tensions flared up as protesters tried to break through a police cordon that was separating them from a group of citizens opposing blockades in the country.

Earlier in the day, Hrka went on a hunger strike outside the parliament building, demanding that those responsible for the death of her son and the other victims be identified, as well as that early elections be called and all detained students released.