BELGRADE - An attacker who fired a crossbow at a police officer guarding the Israeli embassy in Belgrade was shot dead on Saturday (June 29) in what President Aleksandar Vucic called a terrorist attack against Serbia.

No embassy staff were wounded in the attack, the Israeli foreign ministry said, and the policeman was in a stable condition in hospital following surgery to remove an arrow from his neck, Vucic said.

Vucic named the attacker as Salahudin Zujovic, a man from central Serbia who had converted to Islam from Serbian Orthodox Christianity, and said he had worked with an accomplice who remained at large.

"We are looking for another person," Vucic told reporters after visiting the wounded policeman. "We will secure all diplomatic missions and also guarantee safety and security."

The pair were being tracked by Serbian security agencies prior to Saturday's attack but there was not enough evidence to detain them, Vucic added.

Earlier in the day, interior minister Ivica Dacic said the policeman who was attacked had fired several shots at the assailant, killing him.

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