Crossbow attacker shot dead outside Israeli embassy in Serbia
- The attacker shot a police officer in the neck with a crossbow in front of the embassy in Belgrade, Serbia’s interior minister said
A Serbian police officer on Saturday killed a man who shot him in the neck with a crossbow in front of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade, the Serbian interior minister said.
Authorities said some arrests had been made and a number of people known to the security services were suspected of being linked to the attack, which the Serbian prime minister described as a “heinous terrorist act”.
The officer “used a weapon in self-defence and defeated the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries”, said Interior Minister Ivica Dacic.
He said the incident happened at around 11am on Saturday morning in the Serbian capital, when an “unknown person … shot a member of the gendarmerie, who was on duty securing the Israeli embassy, from a crossbow and hit him in the neck”.
The officer, who has undergone surgery in hospital, was in his guard booth when the attack happened.
This was an act of insanity, which cannot be attributed to any religion and any nation