Serbian police shot dead a suspected terrorist on Saturday during a shootout in the southern town of Novi Pazar, the country’s Interior Ministry Ivica Dačić confirmed.
The man was Sanad Ramović, a Bosnian Muslim who was wanted for harboring a Serb convert to Islam responsible for a crossbow attack outside the Israeli embassy in Belgrade on June 29.
Dačić confirmed the man neutralized by police had previously served a 13-and-a-half-years prison sentence for terror charges following a police shootout in 2007 during which he resisted arrest.
He was a member of the ultra-conservative Wahhabi Islamist movement and recently pledged allegiance to the Islamic State terrorist group in a video he posted on Telegram.
He had been hiding out between Kosovo and Novi Pazar, the capital of the Serbian region of Sandsak primarily populated by Bosnian Muslims.
