“He continued on foot, attacking a parked vehicle where he opened fire on a 22-year-old man in the passenger seat. “All the children are fine, those of the primary and kindergarten saw nothing, they were evacuated through the back of the school,” Julie Fernandez, mother of a 7-year-old child at the school, told Agence France-Presse. Belgium further raised its terror alert level after the Paris attack and placed the capital Brussels on lockdown for a week. In August 2016, a machete-wielding man shouting “Allahu Akbar” (God is greatest) attacked two policewomen in the industrial town of Charleroi before being shot dead. The country’s law enforcement agencies and intelligence services came under intense scrutiny for apparently missing a series of leads after the Paris attacks that could have led to the Brussels bombers.

Source: Manila Times May 29, 2018 12:41 UTC