SERBIAN Prime Minister Milos Vucevic said today he was stepping down following weeks of massive anti-corruption protests over the deadly collapse of a concrete railway station canopy in November.

Mr Vucevic told a news conference that his resignation was intended to ease tensions over the canopy collapse, which killed 15 people in the northern city of Novi Sad.

“It is my appeal for everyone to calm down the passions and return to dialogue,” he said.