Belgium-Sweden game has been suspended as players are now

Belgium-Sweden game has been suspended as players are now refusing to emerge for the second half.

This happens after two Swedish football fans were shot dead in Brussels ahead of tonight’s game.

The perpetrator remains on the loose.

After first half the game was not called off yet by football authorities but now players rejected to return

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Two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening, police have said.

Belgium's prime minister later confirmed the victims were Swedish. Prosecutors say they are treating the shooting as terrorism.

The Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier football match being played in the city has been abandoned, Uefa said.

The gunman fled the scene and is still at large. Brussels has increased its terror threat to the highest level.

A spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor said another person had been wounded in the attack.

"Go home and stay at home as long as the threat has not been eradicated," Eric van Duyse told Reuters, adding that the attacker claimed to be inspired by Islamic State.

A video posted on social media showed an Arabic-speaking man claiming he carried out the attack in the name of God.

The man in the clip said he had killed three people. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed it has seen the footage but cannot say whether he is the gunman.

The video and others uploaded during the attack is being verified by police, the BBC has been told.

Federal prosecutors in Belgium have since said that a terrorism probe has been opened following the shooting on the Boulevard d'Ypres.

Two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening, police have said.

Belgium's prime minister later confirmed the victims were Swedish. Prosecutors say they are treating the shooting as terrorism.

The Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier football match being played in the city has been abandoned, Uefa said.

The gunman fled the scene and is still at large. Brussels has increased its terror threat to the highest level.

A spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor said another person had been wounded in the attack.

"Go home and stay at home as long as the threat has not been eradicated," Eric van Duyse told Reuters, adding that the attacker claimed to be inspired by Islamic State.

A video posted on social media showed an Arabic-speaking man claiming he carried out the attack in the name of God.

The man in the clip said he had killed three people. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed it has seen the footage but cannot say whether he is the gunman.

The video and others uploaded during the attack is being verified by police, the BBC has been told.

Federal prosecutors in Belgium have since said that a terrorism probe has been opened following the shooting on the Boulevard d'Ypres.

Given the ongoing situation in Israel/Gaza very sadly we will probably see more of this type of cowardly behaviour worldwide. There are no winners in any war.

Two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening, police have said.

Belgium's prime minister later confirmed the victims were Swedish. Prosecutors say they are treating the shooting as terrorism.

The Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier football match being played in the city has been abandoned, Uefa said.

The gunman fled the scene and is still at large. Brussels has increased its terror threat to the highest level.

A spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor said another person had been wounded in the attack.

"Go home and stay at home as long as the threat has not been eradicated," Eric van Duyse told Reuters, adding that the attacker claimed to be inspired by Islamic State.

A video posted on social media showed an Arabic-speaking man claiming he carried out the attack in the name of God.

The man in the clip said he had killed three people. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed it has seen the footage but cannot say whether he is the gunman.

The video and others uploaded during the attack is being verified by police, the BBC has been told.

Federal prosecutors in Belgium have since said that a terrorism probe has been opened following the shooting on the Boulevard d'Ypres.

Given the ongoing situation in Israel/Gaza very sadly we will probably see more of this type of cowardly behaviour worldwide. There are no winners in any war.

Two people have been shot dead in the Belgian capital Brussels on Monday evening, police have said.

Belgium's prime minister later confirmed the victims were Swedish. Prosecutors say they are treating the shooting as terrorism.

The Belgium-Sweden Euro 2024 qualifier football match being played in the city has been abandoned, Uefa said.

The gunman fled the scene and is still at large. Brussels has increased its terror threat to the highest level.

A spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor said another person had been wounded in the attack.

"Go home and stay at home as long as the threat has not been eradicated," Eric van Duyse told Reuters, adding that the attacker claimed to be inspired by Islamic State.

A video posted on social media showed an Arabic-speaking man claiming he carried out the attack in the name of God.

The man in the clip said he had killed three people. The federal prosecutor's office confirmed it has seen the footage but cannot say whether he is the gunman.

The video and others uploaded during the attack is being verified by police, the BBC has been told.

Federal prosecutors in Belgium have since said that a terrorism probe has been opened following the shooting on the Boulevard d'Ypres.

Given the ongoing situation in Israel/Gaza very sadly we will probably see more of this type of cowardly behaviour worldwide. There are no winners in any war.

The US military industrial complex will be rubbing their hands, they “win” in every war.
We’ll see security measures stepped up at every ground now.

So sad, religious morons strike again.

The terrorist is shot dead!

Brussels shooting: Police shoot dead attacker who killed Swedes -

Belgian police have shot dead a man who killed two Swedish nationals in the capital, Brussels, on Monday evening.

The 45-year-old man, named in Belgian media as Abdesalem, was shot in a café in the Schaerbeek neighbourhood.

A third Swedish citizen was seriously injured in the attack, which took place 5km (3 miles) from the stadium where Belgium was playing Sweden to qualify for the Euro 2024 football tournament.

The victims are all men in their 60s and 70s, Swedish officials said.

The attack began at 19:00 (17:00 GMT) on Monday, when a man opened fire with an automatic rifle on the Boulevard d'Ypres - north of the city centre.

Videos shared online showed a man on a scooter, dressed in an orange fluorescent jacket, pull up and start shooting passers-by.

He then chases people into the hallway of an apartment building to gun them down. Four gunshots can be heard.

Shortly after the attack, he filmed himself admitting to the killings.

In the video, the Arabic-speaking gunman refers to fighting for God and says he has killed Swedish people.

The suspect was tracked down on Tuesday morning following an overnight manhunt, during which France also stepped up security measures at the Belgian border.

He was found after a witness informed the police that he had seen the suspect in a café near his accommodation in Schaerbeek, north of Brussels, and that he was carrying a military weapon and a bag of clothes.

The suspect was shot in the chest and sent to hospital, where he received intensive care treatment but died from his wounds.

He is believed to be a Tunisian man who was in Belgium illegally, after his asylum application was rejected in 2020. Sweden's prosecutor's office said it believes he was inspired to commit the killings by the Islamic State (IS) group.

Belgian Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden said the automatic weapon found on him was the same as the one used in the attack.