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\n BELGRADE
\nA man has been shot dead by Serbian police, the interior minister said Sunday, after being connected with the attacker behind a crossbow shooting at the Israeli embassy in Belgrade in June.
\nInterior minister Ivica Dacic said the man fired shots toward the police near the southern city of Novi Pazar late Saturday and refused to surrender.
\n\u201cDuring the arrest, he resisted, fired three to four shots at the police, and members of the Special Anti-Terrorist Unit neutralized him,\u201d Dacic told local media.
\nHe added that the man had previously been convicted and jailed for terrorist offenses. The police operation took place in the village of Hotkovo, near Novi Pazar \u2014 a historical and political center of Serbia\u2019s Bosniak Muslim minority.
\nPolice said the man was wanted in connection with another man killed by police in Belgrade on June 29th, after shooting a police officer in the neck with a crossbow outside the Israeli embassy.
\nThe attack in the Serbian capital was characterised as a \u201cterrorist act\u201d by officials, who described the assailant as a Serbian convert to Islam.
\nThe man killed Saturday night was the landlord of the June attacker, police said, who had lived in his apartment in Novi Pazar prior to his attack at the embassy.
\nHe had been on the run since the June attack, the police minister stated.
\nLocal media describe the man killed in Novi Pazar as a \u201cwell-known follower\u201d of the Wahhabi movement \u2014 a purist form of Islam that dominates in Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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