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Policeman kills knife attacker outside Israel's embassy in Serbia
Authorities raised Serbia’s terror alert to its highest level after the attack, and officials said the wounded officer was expected to be discharged Wednesday.
- An unidentified assailant attacked a guard with knives outside the Israeli Embassy in Belgrade on Wednesday; police killed the attacker, whom authorities are investigating for potential ties to the Islamic State.
- Interior Minister Ivica Dacic said police are treating the incident as a "terrorist attack" and claimed the attacker had posted support for the Islamic State on Instagram.
- Shouting "Allahu Akbar," the assailant attacked a member of the Gendarmerie with two knives; the officer, lightly wounded, "liquidated" the attacker in "self-defense," Dacic said.
- The attack follows a parliamentary election in Serbia where President Aleksandar Vucic was defeated, though Vucic and his allies currently retain control of the police as the new government forms.
- This incident follows a 2024 attack at the same Belgrade embassy where an assailant with a crossbow wounded a Serbian police officer; Israel also held parliamentary elections with unclear results.
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According to the Serbian Ministry of the Interior, the person with two knives, shot in self-defence, was under surveillance.
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