PODGORICA, Montenegro — Several thousand people rallied in Montenegro on Sunday demanding the resignations of top security officials over the shooting earlier this week that left 12 people dead, including two children.

Chanting “Resignations” and “Killers,” protesters outside the Interior Ministry building in the capital, Podgorica, demanded that Interior Minister Danilo Šaranovic and Deputy Prime Minister for Security and Defense Aleksa Becic immediately step down.

Milo Perovic, from a student-led group that helped organize the rally, told the crowd that innocent people died during their watch.

“You failed to protect us, so resign!” Perovic said.

Hours earlier, hundreds of people held 12 minutes of silence for the 12 victims at a rally in Cetinje, Montenegro’s historic capital where the shooting, which resulted from a bar brawl, took place on Wednesday.

It was the second such massacre in the town in less than three years.

— The Associated Press