The attacker, armed with a crossbow, wounded a Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade.
An attacker with a crossbow wounded a Serbia n police officer guarding the Israel i Embassy in Belgrade on Saturday, Serbia 's interior ministry said. The officer responded by fatally shooting the assailant.Interior 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 'used a weapon in self-defense to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries.
A spokesman with the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that 'today there was an attempted terrorist attack in the vicinity of the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade.' The spokesman said the embassy is closed and no employee of the embassy was injured.The identity of the attacker was still being determined. 'All the circumstances of the attack and possible motives are being investigated,' Dacic said.Israel's Embassy is located not far from the U.S.
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