Brussels attack 16 October killed two Swedes before Belgium Sweden

There are also several injured. The victims were wearing the shirt of Sweden, Belgium’s opponent in this evening’s match in the country’s capital

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A Kalashnikov attack in the center of Brussels on the evening of Monday 16 October. According to local media reports, they died two people of Swedish nationality who wore the Sweden shirt. There is a dispute in the city Belgium-Sweden for the Euro 2024 qualifiers. The match has currently been suspended for safety reasons.

attack in brussels

The attack occurred around 7.15pm in the center of Brussels near Plein Sainctelette, between Boulevard d’Ypress and Boulevard du Ninieme de Ligne according to what Le Soir reported, about 5 km from the King Baudouin Stadium where the football match is taking place this evening. The perpetrator of the shooting, according to sudinfo.behe would have shouted Allah Akbar before starting to shoot in all directions with the automatic weapon while getting off the scooter. He was wearing a fluorescent orange vest and a white helmet, as seen in some amateur images.

After shooting at a car and two people in a taxi, the man he fled on board the scooter and appears to be heading in the direction of the stadium. Sky News UK reports the words of a witness who said he started screaming in shock at what was happening.

the reclamation video

According to what he reports sudinfothe suspect allegedly published a video in which he claims his belonging to the Islamic State boasting of having killed two non-believers. In his video he says he shot to avenge the Muslims. This morning the same person wrote a message talking about the case of the Palestinian-American child killed in Chicago by 26 stab wounds “if he had been Christian you would be talking about an attack” the man wrote. The six-year-old boy was brutally killed by the seventy-one-year-old owner of the apartment where he lived with his mother. The ambush would have occurred precisely because they were Palestinians, in a neighborhood full of shops and citizens originally from Palestine.



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