Serbia: crossbow attacker shot dead after firing bolt at Israeli embassy guard

He 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-defence to shoot the attacker, who died as a result of his injuries”.

The officer was conscious when he was transported to Belgrade’s main emergency hospital, where an operation to remove the bolt from his neck will be performed, he added. The Serbian news agency Tanjug quoted Dačić as saying the officer was in a life-threatening condition and undergoing surgery.“This is a terrorist attack against Serbia,” Dačić said in the statement carried by Tanjug.“There are some indications that are already known to security services and we are talking about the Wahhabi organisation, but that is not confirmed,” Dačić said, referring to a strict school of Islam.

The 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, Dačić said.

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