Two Swedish nationals were shot dead on Monday evening in central Brussels by a single armed man, in what Prime Minister Alexander de Croo of Belgium said was an act of terrorism. The suspect remained at large hours after the attack, Belgian police said.
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Two Swedish nationals were shot dead on Monday evening in central Brussels by a single armed man, in what Prime Minister Alexander de Croo of Belgium said was an act of terrorism.
Another unverified video circulating on social media, shot in selfie mode, showed a man in a high-visibility orange jacket very similar to the one worn by the shooter, speaking in Arabic and describing himself as an adherent to the Islamic State.
“So there has been a claim via social media where someone says he is the perpetrator, that he has sympathies for IS, and what is also important, he mentions the Swedish nationality of those victims,” Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the federal prosecutor’s office, told the Belgian broadcaster VTM.
Mr. Van Der Sypt, in comments to the Belga news agency, said that a third man had been injured in the attack but was out of danger.
In a post on X, Charles Michel, the president of the European Council, said that “the heart of Europe is hit by violence.”
Brussels was hit by major Islamic State terrorist attacks in 2016, which left more than 30 people dead and hundreds injured.
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