2023-10-17 09:41:45
Belgian police on Tuesday arrested a man suspected of shooting dead two Swedish football fans in what authorities said was a “terrorist attack”.
The arrest, in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek, followed an intensive manhunt in the capital for the assailant armed with an automatic rifle.
Police opened fire during the arrest, a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutors’ service, Eric Van Duyse, said, without confirming a report by broadcaster RTBF that the suspect was wounded.
Belgium’s interior minister, Annelies Verlinden, confirmed reports that the suspect had been found and shot in a café.
“He may have died on the way to the hospital. The latter information still needs to be confirmed. But the search appears to have come to an end,” public broadcaster VRT quoted Verlinden as saying.
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