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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: 3, Insightful) by requerdanos on Tuesday May 29 2018, @04:31PM
If you are looking for physical appearance, belief in the divine of one flavor or another, or nation of birth to detect whether someone is a barbarian, you will, of course, get mostly noise, and very little signal. That would be prejudice, judging before evidence is known with which to do so.
If you, on the other hand, look to those who commit multiple murder, observe, nod, and record the fact that they are barbarians, you are simply observing reality.
Interestingly, there is a middle ground. Areas that are rife with violent crime do in fact tend to export people who are more barbarian and less civilized, whether it's Muslim villages who burn their Christians and infidels alive, or gang-riddled U.S. inner cities, or tribes of cannibals.
If--I say if, this barbarian didn't--someone should come from such an area, a wait-and-see attitude is probably healthier than just assuming they are a nice, good person who left the craziness, instead of part of the craziness looking to expand in other areas.
Thus, a prejudiced bigot would likely be right much of the time for the wrong reason, and your enlightened tolerance would likewise be wrong much of the time because it's often simply favorable prejudice, which has its own dangers.
This isn't a criticism of you--a caution, perhaps. It's okay to point out that being a prejudiced bigot is wrong while still recognizing the evidence-based case that like frequently breeds like.