Police shoot 'suspect' following manhunt for Belgium terror attacker

Belgian police today arrested a suspected gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels with an automatic rifle in what authorities said was a 'terrorist attack'.

The arrest, in the Brussels neighbourhood of Schaerbeek, followed an intensive manhunt in the capital for the armed assailant, identified by local media as Abdesalem Lassoued.

Police opened fire during the arrest, a spokesman for the Belgian prosecutors' service, Eric Van Duyse, said, without confirming a report by broadcaster RTBF that the suspect was wounded.

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