Serbian officer shot with crossbow outside Israeli embassy

[Pelican Press 0]

Serbian officer shot with crossbow outside ******** embassy

A Serbian police officer has been injured in a crossbow ******* outside the ******** embassy in the capital, Belgrade.

Interior Minister Ivica Dacic told reporters that the officer had subsequently shot and ******* the assailant.

The attacker – whose has not yet been identified by authorities – had hit the policeman in the neck, Mr Dacic said.

The officer has been taken to hospital to undergo surgery to treat his wound, and is reportedly in a life-threatening condition.

Serbian broadcaster B92 quoted Mr Dacic as saying that the attacker had approached a small building at the front of the ******** embassy around 11:00 (09:00 GMT), purportedly asking about a museum.

The man had then opened the door to the small building, removed a crossbow and shot the officer, Mr Dacic was reported as saying. The officer then returned ***** and the assailant ***** around half an hour later.

Mr Dacic said the case had been taken over by special prosecutors and that several others had been arrested as a precautionary measure.

While the interior minister suggested the ******* may have been part of a larger threat, Serbian Prime Minister Milos Vucevic called it “a ****** of an individual”.

According to comments reproduced by the Beta news agency, he described the incident as “an act of insanity, which cannot be attributed to any religion and any nation”.

The ******** foreign ministry said the embassy had been closed at the time of the incident and that no employees had been injured.

The incident in Belgrade is not the first time someone has seemingly attempted to stage an ******* on an ******** embassy since the Gaza war that ******* began after ******’s 7 October ******* against southern *******.

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