They packed up food, water and extra clothes and set off. Hundreds of Serbian university students on Thursday started an 80-kilometer, or 50 mile, march toward the northern city of Novi Sad.

Hundreds of Serbian students set off on a demonstration march from Belgrade to Novi Sad on Thursday (January 30) in the latest anti-government protest triggered by a railway station roof collapse that killed 15 people in November.

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.