Seems to be a trend happening in europe.
- WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES
- Attacker stabbed two policewomen, took their guns and shot them and a civilian dead in Liege, Belgium
- He then took a female cleaner hostage inside a nearby high school, before he was killed by special forces
- Belgian prosecutors say the attacker ‘came out firing’ from the school and was shot dead outside
- The incident in the eastern Belgian city on Tuesday morning is being treated as a terror attack
- The male attacker had reportedly been released from prison the day before the attack
- Belgian broadcaster named attacker as Benjamin Herman, 36, who they claim had converted to Islam
- Victims named as police officers Lucile Garcia, 45, and Soraya Belkacemi, 53, and Cyril Vangriecke, 22
By Sara Malm In London and Peter Allen In Paris for MailOnline and Sebastian Murphy-bates For Mailonline
This is the moment Belgian special forces took down a gunman who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he shot and killed two policewomen and a 22-year-old trainee teacher.
After carrying out three brutal murders this morning, the attacker took a female cleaner hostage in a nearby high school.
The footage shows him running out of the school with two guns blazing before he was shot dead in the street. Several officers were injured in the gun battle.
The man, who is understood to have been on a day release from a nearby prison, had approached the female officers at around 10.30am, slashed their throats and stabbed them several times from behind, before disarming them.
He has been named as 36-year-old Benjamin Herman. His victims have been named as police officers Lucile Garcia, 45, and Soraya Belkacemi, 53, and 22-year-old Cyril Vangriecken, who was shot dead sitting in a parked car with his mother.
Tonight Liège police paid tribute to their two fallen colleagues on Facebook, calling them ‘wonderful’ mothers and officers.
A lawmaker revealed Belgian national Herman was on an anti-terror police watchlist after being radicalised in jail. He appeared indirectly in security reports on radicalised people and was a multiple repeat offender incarcerated since 2003 who was on day release when…