The brutal stabbing is being treated as a terrorist attack.
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Machete. Knifeman used highly risky blade to attack two female cops Stabbing. Magnette said that in the wake of the incident, Belgian authorities have begun discussing whether security for police facilities and officers should be reinforced further.
One young man told the television station VTM that he and his friends heard five to six shots fired in rapid succession, then, 30 seconds later, three more shots. The jihadists involved in recent attacks in Paris and Brussels used Charleroi as a base for their operations.
“I condemn the attack in Charleroi”, Michel said in a posting on his Twitter account.
In a tweet, they said the attacker had been shot but was alive.
Prosecutors are expecting to identify the knifeman on Sunday.
Police officers secure the scene, near the police headquarters in Charleroi, Belgium, Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016.
A security cordon was put up around the Boulevard Pierre Mainz in the southern Belgian city.
“Our thoughts go to the victims, their relatives and the police services”, he said. “We are following the situation closely”.
The latest terror attack in Western Europe occurred outside the main police station in the city of Charleroi, South of Brussels.
Charleroi has often been associated with extremist gangs, especially as a place where weapons are kept. Many of the Paris attackers, who pledged allegiance to the Islamic State group, lived in Belgium.
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Belgium is now on a threat level three out of four, meaning a terrorist attack is “possible or probable”.
