Vu?evi? resigned just one day after President Aleksandar Vu?i? announced plans for urgent government reconstruction.

Serbian Prime Minister Miloš Vu?evi? resigned on Tuesday following months of protests over a deadly awning collapse in November that killed 15 people.

Vu?evi?'s resignation came just a day after President Aleksandar Vu?i? said "an urgent and extensive reconstruction of the government" was in the works in response to the demands posed by Serbia's striking university students.

However, Vu?evi? said he was prompted to resign on Tuesday morning after seeing reports of attacks against protesting students in the northern city and regional capital of Novi Sad.

One person, a 23-year-old woman, was hospitalised with severe injuries on Monday night after she was attacked by a group of unidentified assailants wielding baseball bats, domestic media reported.

"(The government) has to show ... the highest level of responsibility," he said at a public address on Tuesday.

"In order to not raise tensions in the society any further, I made the decision I just announced."

On Monday, demonstrators launched a 24-hour blockade of a key traffic intersection in the capital Belgrade, stepping up pressure on the authorities.

Serbian farmers on tractors and thousands of citizens joined the blockade that followed weeks of protests demanding accountability for the deadly accident in Novi Sad that critics have blamed on rampant government corruption.

A campaign of street demonstrations has posed the biggest challenge in years to the Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) government's firm grip on power in Serbia.

Later on Monday, Vu?i?, at a joint press conference with Vu?evi? and Parliament Speaker Ana Brnabi?, urged dialogue with the students, saying that “we need to lower the tensions and start talking to each other.”

“Any kind of a crisis poses a serious problem for our economy,” said Vu?i?. “Such a situation in society is not good for anyone.”

The mayor of Novi Sad, Milan ?uri?, is also set to resign on Tuesday. Vu?evi?, who hails from Novi Sad, was the city's mayor from 2012 to 2022.