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Brussels police 'shoot and arrest' suspect in killing of Swedish football fans
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The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said the man, believed to be a radicalised Tunisian national living illegally in Belgium, had been shot dead in the city’s Schaerbeek neighbourhood early Tuesday morning, where a building had been searched during the night.
Amateur videos posted on social media of the attack showed a man wearing an orange fluorescent vest pull up on a scooter, take out a large weapon and open fire on passersby before chasing them into a building to gun them down.
Not far from the scene of the shooting, a football match between Belgium and Sweden at the national stadium was suspended at halftime and the 35,000 fans held inside as a precaution while the attacker was at large.
Speaking to journalists at a press conference before dawn on Tuesday morning, Prime Minister Alexander De Croo described the shooting as a “brutal terrorist attack.”
“The attack that was launched yesterday was committed with total cowardice,” De Croo said, and added that the assailant was a Tunisian man living illegally in Belgium who used a military weapon to kill the two Swedes and shoot a third who is recovering from ”severe injuries."
Information provided to the Belgian authorities by an unidentified foreign government suggested that the man had been radicalised and intended to travel abroad to fight in a holy war.
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