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Belgium shooting: Attacker stabs two police officers and steals their guns before shooting them in incident feared to be terror-related Belgium shooting: Attacker stabs two police officers and steals their guns before shooting them in incident feared to be terror-related
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A knife-wielding attacker stabbed two police officers in the Belgian city of Liege, stealing their guns before shooting them and a bystander dead in an incident feared to be terror-related. An attacker stabbed two police officers in the Belgian city of Liege, stealing their weapons and shooting them dead before also gunning down a bystander in an incident authorities are treating as terror-related.
The man, who was later killed by police, approached the two officers from behind and stabbed them several times, Philippe Dulieu, spokesman for the Liege prosecutor's office said. The man, who was later killed by police, approached the two female officers from behind and stabbed them several times on a boulevard in the centre of Belgium's third-largest city, around 30 miles from the German border.
The attacker then shot dead a 22-year-old man who was sat in a vehicle parked nearby and took a woman hostage in a school close to where the shooting took place outside a city cafe. The attacker then shot dead a 22-year-old man, who was sat in a vehicle parked nearby, and took a woman hostage in a school close to where the shooting took place outside a city cafe.
“Liege police intervened. He came out firing at police, wounding a number of them, notably in the legs. He was shot dead,” Mr Dulieu said. Pupils were moved to safety as a gun battle broke out that sent people in the street racing for cover. Several police were wounded before the attacker was finally killed.
A senior official at the federal prosecutor’s officer has stated that “there are indications it could be a terror attack”. “Liege police intervened. He came out firing at police, wounding a number of them, notably in the legs. He was shot dead,” said Philippe Dulieu, spokesman for the Liege prosecutor's office.
“The event is classed as a terrorist incident.”
Newspaper La Libre Belgique quoted a police source as saying the gunman shouted “Allahu Akbar”.
The attacker was named by public broadcaster RTBF as a 36-year-old petty criminal who had been let out on day-release from a local prison on Monday. 
It said investigators were examining whether he converted to Islam and had been radicalised in jail.
However, Belgian prime minister, Charles Michel, said it was too early to say what had caused the incident in a statement expressing his condolences to the families of the victims.
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