[1/6]Individuals work at a capturing scene as Belgian police safe the realm, in Brussels, Belgium, October 16, 2023. REUTERS/Johanna Geron Purchase Licensing Rights
BRUSSELS, Oct 16 (Reuters) – Two folks of Swedish nationality have been shot useless in Brussels, Belgian newspaper Het Laatste Nieuws mentioned on Monday.
The newspaper mentioned it was doubtless that they had been two soccer supporters. Belgium are internet hosting Sweden in a Euro 2024 qualifying match on Monday night.
A police spokesperson confirmed that two folks had been killed in a capturing incident close to the centre of the Belgian capital however declined to present additional particulars.
A spokesperson for Brussels prosecutors, who’re dealing with the case, additionally declined to present any particulars regarding the victims or any doable motive.
Video footage posted on the Het Laaste Niews newspaper web site confirmed a person in an orange jacket on a scooter at a road intersection with a rifle first firing two photographs, then three extra, then working right into a constructing, firing two extra photographs, leaving, taking a couple of steps again once more and capturing another time.
One Belgium newspaper mentioned a witness mentioned the shooter shouted “Allahu Akbar” earlier than the photographs had been fired.
(This story has been corrected to say that the police confirmed two folks had been useless within the capturing, in paragraph 3)
Reporting by Philip Blenkinsop in Brussels
Enhancing by Hugh Lawson and Matthew Lewis
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