The protests began after an attack on drama students on January 24 by pro-government thugs during a daily 15-minute commemoration for victims of a deadly overhang collapse in November that killed 15 people.

Student-led protesters continued on Friday their two-day march from the Serbian capital Belgrade to the northern city of Novi Sad after pausing in Inđija, where they spent the night in a football stadium.

By Tatyana Kekic in Belgrade Hundreds of students in Serbia began their two-day march from the capital Belgrade to Novi Sad on January 30, a journey of approximately 80 kilometers, as the country remains gripped by political turmoil following a deadly infrastructure collapse in Novi Sad late last year.

One of Belgrade's key traffic arteries turned into a campsite on January 27. Thousands of students and citizens gathered for an all-day road blockade, demanding political and criminal accountability for the deaths of 15 people at Novi Sad's railway station on November 1.

Tens of thousands of anti-government protesters in Belgrade on Friday stood in silence in front of the state television RTS building for 15 minutes to commemorate victims of a railway station roof collapse for which they blame Serbian authorities.