2 police officers wounded in machete attack in Belgium, suspect killed
(FOX)- A man wielding a machete and shouting “Allahu Akbar” injured two female police officers Saturday outside a police station in southern Belgium before being shot and killed, police said.
Police reported that the injured officers were “out of danger.”
The attack took place around 4 p.m. local time near the main police station in Charleroi.
According to RTBF state broadcasting, one officer suffered severe injuries to her face while her colleague was slightly injured. It said a third officer shot the assailant.
Islamist bombers killed 32 people in suicide attacks in Brussels in March, and many of the jihadists who carried out attacks on Paris last November in which 130 people died were based in Belgium, according to Reuters.
Belgium Prime Minister Charles Michel said in a tweet in French that he “strongly” condemned the attack.