UB, Serbia (AP) — Nine students from southwestern Serbia who have been trekking across the country for nearly two weeks said Monday they’re tired but determined to walk to the country’s north to keep attention focused on a deadly train disaster a year ago.

They hope to reach Novi Sad on Nov. 1 when a major rally is planned to mark one year since a canopy collapsed in the northern city’s train station, killing 16 people. They believe the victims died because government corruption led to sloppy renovations at the station.

The group, which has been joined by a handful of additional students since departing from the southwestern town of Novi Pazar on Oct. 16, headed out Monday from the central Serbian town of Ub after spending the night there.

“People have been honking their horns and comin

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