One young man told the television station VTM that he and his friends heard five to six shots fired in rapid succession, then, 30 seconds later, three more shots. Last March, Islamist bombers killed 32 people in suicide attacks at Brussels airport and a metro station. "Initial indications clearly point towards terrorism," Prime Minister Charles Michel told the television channel RTL. There was no immediate indication of the man's identity; Belgian media reported that the attacker had no papers with him. The attacker was shot by a third officer and subsequently died of his wounds, but the police officers were out of danger, police said.

Source: Otago Daily Times August 06, 2016 19:18 UTC