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Policeman kills knife attacker outside Israel's embassy in Serbia
Authorities treated the stabbing as a suspected terrorist attack and raised Serbia’s terror alert to its highest level, 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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