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A man has shot dead two police officers and a civilian in the eastern Belgian city of Liège.
The gunman took a female cleaner hostage at a school before being killed by police. Two other police officers were also injured.
The man's motive is not yet clear but the incident is being treated as terrorism.
Police sources quoted in local media said the man was heard shouting "Allahu Akbar" ("God is greatest" in Arabic).
Belgian broadcaster RTBF said the gunman was let out from prison on temporary release on Monday where he had been serving time on drug offenses. It said that he may have been radicalised while in jail.
The shooting unfolded late morning on Tuesday near a cafe in the city centre.
Update: 16:56 UTC
More recent reporting states:
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/29/europe/liege-shooting-intl/index.html
The incident occurred at around 10:30 a.m. when an assailant stabbed two policewomen from behind, before stealing their service weapons and using them on the officers, Liege Prosecutor Philippe Dulieu said at a news conference on Tuesday.
After killing the two officers, the attacker continued walking through the street and opened fire on a parked vehicle, fatally wounding the driver inside, Dulieu added.
The gunman also killed a 22-year-old male car passenger on the Boulevard d'Avory, before taking a female cleaner hostage at a nearby high school.
She was released when police shot dead the attacker, who has been named by local media as Belgian national Benjamin Herman.
See also, thanks to C0lo:
(Score: 5, Informative) by c0lo on Tuesday May 29 2018, @01:43PM (16 children)
Do your duty and post other link and more info - I grew tired of offtopic anti-muslim emigration rants:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/05/29/gunman-kills-two-police-officers-belgium-taking-woman-hostage/ [telegraph.co.uk]
https://news.sky.com/story/belgian-police-launch-terror-probe-after-shooting-of-police-and-bystander-11388883 [sky.com]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 3, Insightful) by janrinok on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:20PM (10 children)
Come join the editorial team and maybe help fill the gaps when we can have an editor just sitting here waiting to spoon feed those who cannot use Google.
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday May 29 2018, @02:40PM (7 children)
Even now it's not too late - instead of replying to me, you could use the material I provided and adjust TFS.
Your bit + my occasional bit and it may result in a decent FS without me taking a commitment I know I cannot keep!
Tut-tut, Jan, nobody pushed you to volunteer for an ed. If you've done it, do your job well, though.
If you can't take it any more, just notify TMB, he'll do his best to answer the challenge.
Mistake will happen and I (or others) will start shouting; it doesn't mean though I don't appreciate what a thankless job being an editor is and neither that I make any value judgement about you beyond the point of the problem.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:37AM (6 children)
But do you? There's an awful lot of whinging going on there for someone appreciating the thankless job.
It's not too late, c0lo!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @02:54AM (5 children)
Are you that alone and bored you have nothing better to do than to open processes of intention for things long resolved?
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @04:36AM (4 children)
On my page, the post I replied happened three minutes later. Not "long resolved" in any sense of the word.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @05:00AM (3 children)
See the update in TFS?
Problem of missing info solved @16:56 UTC, your post coming @02:37AM next day. This is "long resolved" in my books.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @08:54AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 30 2018, @09:40AM (1 child)
Process of intent, punto e basta.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @10:07AM
(Score: 2) by Azuma Hazuki on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:57PM (1 child)
It's not "cannot," it's WILL NOT. Don't you get it? VLM, Entropy, and others of their ilk have already made up their minds (and I use the term loosely...) about "those people." They are not interested in reality. They have an axe to grind and by Cthulhu they *will* grind it. Best thing to do is make it obvious in the summary that the kind of shit idiots like them will inevitably post without knowing all the facts is wrong.
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday May 29 2018, @08:11PM
We are all "those people." Shockingly few of us are truly interested in reality. Most of us swim along hoping others accept the gloss we put on the world.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @03:53PM (1 child)
E's a fokkin Muzzi, mate?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @03:55PM
Have you noticed that Muzzi and Nazi sound alike?
(Score: 0, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @05:32PM
Anti-muslim emigration rants are still 100% appropriate.
It isn't the fact that many of them come from foreign lands that matters. It's the fact that they are here. We don't want the ones we have. (they need to go) Adding more makes the infestation worse.
You want peace? It won't happen as long as we share the land. We will not share the land forever. One side or the other, probably them, will ultimately exterminate the other.
Within this century, a genocide is all but certain. Only a few things are seriously in question: the initiator, the exact date, the method, and the winner.
I'm betting on Islam. They have a well-practiced expansion plan that has been taking advantage of liberal attitudes for centuries.
(Score: 0, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday May 29 2018, @10:13PM (1 child)
If you reject your own country/culture in favor of some Islamic Caliphate thing, then you are a hostile opposing force. You are undeserving of citizenship.
At a bare minimum, you should be made stateless and then dropped off at a refugee camp that is really far away. For them, southeast Asia and southern Africa are likely choices. Bangladesh looks particularly promising.
This is of course being far kinder and gentler than they would be to anybody civilized. They'd kill us without hesitation. Logically, we ought to return the favor.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 30 2018, @01:57AM
The culture is democracy. Rejecting it without losing citizenship is thus, the prerogative of any citizen of the country.