An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia\u2019s interior ministry said.<\/p>\n
The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant.
\nInterior Minister Ivica Dacic said in a statement that the attacker fired a bolt at the officer, hitting him in the neck. He said the officer then \u201cused a weapon in self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.\u201d
\nThe policeman was conscious when he was transported to Belgrade\u2019s main emergency hospital, where an operation to remove the bolt from his neck will be performed, the statement added.
\nA spokesman with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that \u201ctoday there was an attempted terrorist attack in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade.\u201d
\nThe spokesman said the embassy is closed and no employee of the embassy was injured.
\nThe identity of the attacker was still being determined. \u201cAll the circumstances of the attack and possible motives are being investigated,\u201d Dacic said.
\nIsrael\u2019s Embassy is located not far from the US Embassy in an upscale Belgrade district.
\nIt has been guarded by an elite police unit with officers armed with automatic weapons.
\nSerbia has maintained close relations with Israel during the war in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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