According to prosecutors, the shooting had occurred in the late morning near a café located in Liège’s city centre.
It has been reported that the man shot the police officers with their own weapon, after following and attacking them with a knife.
The attacker also shot dead a 22-year old man, who was sitting in the passenger seat of a parked car.
Armed police then swiftly arrived at the scene and shot the attacker dead. It has been reported that the man shot fire at these police before he was killed and managed to injure a number of the them “around their legs”.
Belgian media has revealed that the man was a prisoner and had been granted temporary release just on Monday. It is believed that he may have been radicalised during his time in jail.
This incident is being treated as terrorism, as local media heard the attacker shout “"Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic). However, the exact motive behind the incident has not yet been verified.
Belgian’s Interior Minister Jan Jambon commented on the event, saying:
“Our thoughts are with the victims of this horrible act. We are in the process of establishing an overview of exactly what happened."
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