An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot and killed on Saturday in what Interior Minister Ivica
Dacic called a terrorist attack against Serbia.
Dacic said the police officer who was attacked was hit in the neck with an arrow and fired several shots at the attacker, killing him.He said that several people believed to have been linked to the incident had been arrested. “The embassy is closed and no employee of the embassy was injured. The circumstances of the incident are being investigated,” its statement said.
The police officer was in a guard house and the attacker had approached him several times asking him where a museum was. He carried a bag from which at one point he took the crossbow and shot the guard, Dacic said.
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