A bodyguard of the Serbian ultra-nationalist leader Vojislav Seselj, has been shot and wounded in Belgrade.

Hospital sources say the bodyguard, Petar Panic, has been undergoing emergency surgery to remove a number of bullets from his stomach.

It is not known whether Mr Panic was with Mr Seselj - who is also Serbian deputy prime minister - at the time of the attack. The Radical Party leader later visited his bodyguard at Belgrade's Emergency Centre.

One of the doctors at the hospital said he had been brought in just after midday, suffering from six bullet wounds.

"He was not hit in the head and has a chance of surviving," the doctor said.

The incident comes less than two weeks after Serb warlord Zeljko "Arkan" Raznatovic was gunned down in the lobby of a Belgrade hotel.

The Radical Party is part of the ruling coalition led by the Socialist Party of Yugoslav President Slobodan Milosevic and the Yugoslav Left party run by his wife.