BELGRADE (Reuters) -A Serbian prosecutor on Tuesday indicted 13 people, including a former minister, over their role in a railway station roof collapse last year that killed 16 people and triggered months of nationwide anti-government protests.

Former construction, infrastructure and transport minister Goran Vesic and 12 others, including his aide and the railway company head, were indicted on public safety charges, the prosecutor’s office in the city of Novi Sad said in a statement.

The indictment includes “putting in use the station building, even though construction work was under way and a permit (to keep the building in use) had not been issued,” the statement said.

Further charges are the “failure to maintain the structure of the station building, and for criminal offences during

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