Charleroi Police spokesman David Quinaox was interviewed and he said the assailant put the machete in a sports bag.
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Two female police officers in the Belgian city of Charleroi were injured on Saturday by a man wielding a machete who was calling “Allahu Akbar”, or “God is greatest” in Arabic, city police said.
Police said the two female officers were attacked outside the station in Charleroi, a city south of Brussels.
“Initial indications very clearly point towards terrorism”, he told the Belgian TV channel RTL, according to Reuters. According to Charleroi’s mayor, Paul Magnette, the attacker had apparently meant to enter the police station but was stopped at the checkpoint where he carried out the attack.
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Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel condemned the attack which happened as the country remains on high alert in the wake of the Brussels suicide bombings claimed by the Islamic State group that killed 32 people in March.
The attacks were claimed by the Islamic State (ISIS) jihadist group, which controls large areas of territory in Iraq and Syria and has claimed numerous terror attacks in Europe in the previous year.
Belgium has been on a high state of alert since the attacks in Paris on November 13 that killed 130 victims.
“I condemn the attack in Charleroi”, Michel said in a posting on his Twitter account.
The perpetrator was shot by a third police officer and died later in hospital.
They also said the officers were “out of danger”.
A police officer reached by telephone declined to make further comments.
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Police received a call at around 6:20am local time (5:20am United Kingdom time) on Sunday morning saying there was a man with a machete in the Carre neighbourhood of the north-eastern city. Thoughts are with the victims, their relatives and the police. “We are following the situation closely”, he added.
