A man suspected of shooting dead two Swedish nationals and wounding a third before Belgium's Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden in Brussels on Monday night has been shot by police. The match was abandoned - and the terror alert in the Belgian capital has been raised to the highest level.
Police have shot a suspected gunman who killed two people before an international football match in Brussels, Belgium's interior minister has said. Annelies Verlinden told VRT radio 'we have the good news that we found the individual'. The weapon believed to have been used in the fatal shootings before Belgium's match with Sweden on Monday night has been recovered, she said.
Shortly after, a man who claimed to be the gunman appeared on social media in a video in which he claimed to be a member of Islamic State and a 'fighter for Allah'. He also claimed he had carried out the attack in 'revenge in the name of Muslims'. One Belgium newspaper said a witness heard the gunman shout 'Allahu Akbar' - 'God is great' in Arabic - before the shots were fired.
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