Cop wounded by crossbow in front of Israeli embassy in Serbia, kills attacker
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A police officer in Serbia on Saturday (June 29) killed a man who shot him in the neck with a crossbow in front of the Israeli embassy in Belgrade. According to Serbia's Interior MinisterIvica Dacic, the attack occurred at around 11 am local time.
The attacker, whose identity was being ascertained, shot the officer, who was a member of thegendarmerie guarding theembassy, Interior Minister Dacic said in a statement, the news agency AFP reported.
Dacic said that the officerused a weapon in self-defence and defeated the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries. The officer wasundergoing surgery in hospital and was reported to be in a life-threatening condition, the interior minister added.
Who was behind the attack?
Citing authorities, AFP reported that some arrests had been madeand a number of people known to the security services were suspected of being linked to the attack.
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Addressing a press conference, Dacic said thatthere were early indications connecting the attack with people suspected of being linked to the Wahhabi movement -- an ultra-conservative branch of Islam that dominates in Saudi Arabia.
"Some suspicions are already present that we are talking about persons already known to the security services, and we are talking about the Wahhabi movement", Dacic added.
The interior minister said thatseveral people had been arrested for "prevention reasons" and that overall security had been stepped up in Belgrade.
'A heinous terrorist act'
Prime MinisterVucevic strongly condemned the attack and called ita "heinous terrorist act."
"This was an act of insanity, which cannot be attributed to any religion and any nation. It is a crime of an individual," Vucevic said,according to quotes from the Beta news agency.
He vowed that Serbiawould be able to firmly respond to the threat of terrorism and stressed citizens could "feel safe."
Israel, meanwhile,called it an "attempted terrorist attack in the vicinity" of its embassy in Serbia."The embassy is closed and no employee of the embassy was injured,"the Israeli foreign ministry said in a statement.
(With inputs from agencies)