The Belgian Federal Prosecutor's Office said the attacker, who it identified only as K.B., had lived in Belgium since 2012. Belgian prosecutors identified the machete-wielding assailant as a 33-year-old Algerian known to police for criminal offenses, but not for extremist acts. Both policewomen were "severely injured in the face and neck" in the attack, the federal prosecutors' statement said. The attack on Saturday afternoon is being treated as a terrorist incident, notably because the man shouted "Allahu akbar!" "Since there are indications that the attack may have been inspired by a terrorist motive, the federal prosecutor's office decided to take over the investigation from the district prosecutor's office of Charleroi," the federal office said in a statement.

Source: Fox News August 07, 2016 14:48 UTC