The driver collects an antigan gathering in the capital of Serbia and harms a demonstrator

Belgrade, Serbia (AP) – A woman struck a car in a host of anti -government demonstrators in the capital of Serbia and injured one of them on Friday, police said, while a strike led by students Has closed companies and attracted tens of thousands of people to demonstrations across the country.

National demonstrations took place on the same day as President Aleksandar Vucic Planned a large afternoon rally in a central city to counter the persistent anti-government demonstrations that have challenged its tight grip on power.

The demonstrators blocked traffic daily in Serbia to protest against the death of 15 people killed in November Collapse a station canopy that criticisms have blamed government corruption.

Belgrade police said they owned the 24 -year -old driver who struck a crowd of demonstrators in a section that the city called New Belgrade. The injured victim, a 26 -year -old woman, was taken to an emergency hospital, where his condition was not immediately known.

A similar cutting incident took place during a blockade last week in Belgrade, when A car struck the students by protesting, seriously hurt a young woman.

Many in Serbia think that the huge concrete canopy in a station in the city in the north of Novi Sad fell due to Sloppy reconstruction work resulting from corruption.

Several weeks’ protests demanding responsibility for the accident have been the most important since Vucic came to power over ten years ago. He faced charges of To curl democratic freedoms Despite the official research of the European Union for Serbia.

It was not immediately possible to determine the number of people and businesses joined the students’ call for a general strike on a day on Friday. They included restaurants, bars, theaters, bakeries, various stores and bookstores.

“Let us take freedom in our hands,” said students to citizens during their appeal.

Vucic planned to bring together his supporters in the central city of Jagodina later Friday. He announced his intention to form a political movement at the national level in the style of the united movement of Russia of the President of Russia, Vladimir Putin, to ensure the domination of his Progressive Serbian party on the right.

The country’s president and consumer media accused students of working under foreign intelligence orders to overthrow the authorities while pro-government thugs have repeatedly attacked against citizens.

Friday, the 15 -minute traffic blockages started at 11:52 am, the exact time of the collapse of the canopy in Novi Sad.

Serbian universities have been blocked for two monthsas well as many schools. An association of lawyers also launched a strike, but it does not remain clear how many people remained away from work in public institutions on Friday.

Protest marches took place on Friday in Belgrade, Novi Sad, the southern city of Nis and other small cities – even in Jagodina, a bastion of the coalition in power, before the arrival of Vucic.

“Things can no longer stay the same,” actor Goran Songljik told N1 Regional Television. “Students offered us the possibility of change.”

Serbia prosecutors have deposited accusations Against 13 people for the canopy to collapse, including a government minister and several representatives of the state. But the former Minister of Construction, Goran Vesic, was released from detention, fueling doubt on the independence of the probe.

Novi SAD’s main station has been renovated twice in recent years as part of a broader infrastructure agreement with Chinese state companies.