“The perpetrator of the terrorist assault in Brussels has been recognized and died,” Inside Minister Annelies Verlinden posted on X.     

The person, who was shot within the chest, died in hospital from his wounds, media stated.    

He’s suspected of killing two Swedish nationals and wounding a 3rd in central Brussels on Monday evening.

He recognized himself as a member of the Islamic State and claimed duty in a video posted on-line.

The taking pictures got here at a time of heightened safety considerations in some European nations linked to the Israel-Hamas battle, although a Belgian federal prosecutor stated there was no proof that the attacker had any hyperlink to the latest renewed battle between Israel and Palestinian militants.

Verlinden stated earlier that she couldn’t rule out that the gunman had had accomplices.

The suspect fled the scene after the taking pictures on Monday as a soccer match between Belgium and Sweden was about to start out, triggering an enormous manhunt and prompting Belgium to lift its terrorism alert to its highest stage.

Prime Minister Alexander De Croo known as Monday’s taking pictures a brutal “terrorist assault”.

“Final evening three individuals left for what was imagined to be a beautiful soccer celebration. Two of them misplaced their lives in a brutal terrorist assault,” De Croo instructed a information convention.

“The perpetrator focused particularly Swedish supporters who have been in Brussels to attend a Purple Devils soccer match. Two Swedish compatriots handed away. A 3rd individual is recovering from extreme injures,” de Croo stated.

Belgium was internet hosting Sweden in a Euro 2024 qualifying match on Monday night. The match was deserted at halftime.

The nation has raised the safety alert standing of its capital metropolis to the very best stage, with elevated police presence, significantly for Swedish individuals and establishments, and warned the general public to be further vigilant and keep away from pointless journey.

Sweden’s Sapo safety police, who in August raised their terrorism alert to the second-highest stage and warned of a rise in threats in opposition to Swedes at house and overseas, stated they have been in touch with their worldwide counterparts.

“We’re in a critical state of affairs … Sweden has (over time) ended up in an more and more clear focus of violent Islamist extremism,” a Sapo spokesperson stated in an announcement.

The suspected gunman, calling himself Abdesalem Al Guilani, claimed in a video on social media that he was a fighter for Allah.

Video footage of the assault posted on the Het Laatste Nieuws newspaper web site confirmed a person in an orange jacket on a scooter at a road intersection with a rifle first firing 5 photographs, then following individuals fleeing right into a constructing earlier than firing once more.

The newspaper stated on Tuesday that police have been in search of an confederate who filmed the assault.

In accordance with a media transcript of the video message recorded by the self-declared perpetrator, he stated he had killed Swedes to take revenge within the identify of Muslims.

The European Fee, which is predicated in Brussels, has urged employees to do business from home. Some faculties have been closed.

Belgium has been the goal of a number of Islamist assaults over latest years, the deadliest being the 2016 assault on Brussels airport and the town’s metro, during which 32 individuals died.

A number of of the Islamist gunmen who focused Paris in a 2015 assault that killed 130 individuals have been Belgian or dwelling in Brussels.