Policeman kills knife attacker outside Israel's embassy in Serbia
Authorities raised the country’s terror alert to its highest level and increased security at diplomatic sites after the officer was wounded, officials said.
- 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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In the Serbian capital Belgrade, a minor boy was shot dead shortly after midnight after attacking a member of a special police unit with two knives. The officer was guarding the Israeli embassy. Serbian Interior Minister Dacic described it as a terrorist attack. The terror threat level in the country has been raised to the highest level. There is an increased police presence at key locations in Serbia. The boy was shot dead by the security gua…
A Serbian police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade shot and killed a minor who attacked him with a knife while shouting "Allahu Akbar" on Wednesday night, Serbian broadcaster N1 reported, adding that authorities are investigating the incident as a terrorist attack. Israel held parliamentary elections on Tuesday, but the results will not be counted until Wednesday.
Serbian police shot and killed an assailant after he attacked police officers guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade with two knives.
A minor was shot dead by a Serbian gendarme in front of the Embassy of Israel in Belgrade, after two knives attacked a policeman to provide security. The Serbian authorities qualified the incident as a terrorist attack and raised the alert to the highest level.
A minor was shot fatally on Tuesday night towards Wednesday, after attacking with two knives a gendarmerie that provides security for the Embassy of Israel in Belgrade. The incident was qualified as a possible terrorist attack by Serbian Interior Minister Ivica Dacic. Article Terrorist Alert in Belgrade. A minor attacked a policeman near the Embassy of Israel, shouting "Allah Akbar!". The boy was shot fatally appears first on Romania TV.
While early elections were being released in Israel, a young Islamic extremist armed with knives struck an officer in service outside the diplomatic headquarters. For the Serbian police, it was not a coincidence but a planned provocation.
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