Suspected Killer of 2 Swedish Soccer Fans Shot Dead by Police in Belgium
The gunman suspected of killing two Swedish soccer fans died after being shot by police in a cafe in Belgium on Tuesday, authorities said. The 45-year-old Tunisian man said he was a member of ISIS in a video posted online claiming responsibility for the fans’ deaths on Monday night. A third person was also wounded in the attack in Brussels, which led to a soccer game between Belgium and Sweden being abandoned at halftime. The victims haven’t been named, but Swedish officials confirmed Tuesday the men were in their 60s and 70s. “The perpetrator of the terrorist attack in Brussels has been identified and died,” Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden posted on X. Justice Minister Vincent Van Quickenborne said the attacker was known to police as a people smuggler and had been living in the country illegally after a failed asylum bid in 2019. Citing an unidentified foreign official, the Associated Press reported Tuesday that the shooter had “been radicalized and intended to travel abroad to fight in a holy war.”
