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Belgian police officers glimpse proof
Two Swedish nationals were shot dead and a third particular person injured in Brussels, in an assault which prosecutors are treating as terrorism.
The Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier soccer match being played within the metropolis became as soon as abandoned.
Brussels is on its perfect scare alert as the gunman, who regarded to salvage an assault rifle, stays at neat.
French President Emmanuel Macron, who became as soon as on a streak to to Albania, talked about: “Europe has been shaken.”
A spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor, Eric van Duyse, urged the public to “streak house and cease at house as lengthy as the likelihood has not been eradicated”.
He talked about a particular person claiming to be the attacker had talked about in a video on social media he had been inspired by the Islamic Order neighborhood.
A video presentations an Arabic-speaking man announcing he performed the assault within the determine of God and that he killed three folk.
The video and others uploaded one day of the assault are being verified by police, the BBC has been urged.
Federal prosecutors say a terrorism inquiry has been opened over the taking pictures on the Boulevard d’Ypres.
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Swedish supporters reacted on the King Baudouin Stadium
A social media video shared by newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws on Monday, but not verified by BBC Data, presentations a particular person carrying a fluorescent jacket ranking off a scooter armed with what looks to be an assault rifle and enter a shut-by glass-fronted constructing.
He looks to then shoot no not up to one particular person.
Police and emergency companies cordoned off nearby roads following the taking pictures which came about at around 19:00 (17:00 GMT).
Belgian media stores document that the two folk killed had been carrying soccer shirts belonging to the Swedish nationwide personnel.
Swedish footballers urged Uefa they did not have to play the 2nd half of the match and the Belgian personnel agreed, per Swedish broadcaster TV6.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo went on social media to give his “real condolences to the Swedish PM following tonight’s harrowing assault on Swedish residents in Brussels”.
“Our thoughts are with the families and chums who lost their household members,” he talked about. “As shut companions the combat against terrorism is a joint one.”
European Price President Ursula von der Leyen talked about on social media her thoughts had been “with the families of the two victims of the inappropriate assault in Brussels”.
“I lengthen my heartfelt enhance to the Belgian police, so that they apprehend the suspect,” she talked about. “Together, we stand united against scare.”
Additional reporting by Bruno Boelpaep in Brussels and Rob Corp in London
