[1/2] Belgian police officers stand as they secure the area after a shooting in Brussels, Belgium, October 16, 2023.
REUTERS/Johanna Geron Acquire Licensing RightsOct 16 (Reuters) - A self-proclaimed Islamist militant shot dead two Swedish citizens in central Brussels on Monday night, the federal prosecutor said.
Here is a timeline of past Islamist militant attacks in Belgium:* Nov. 10, 2022 - A Belgian police officer is stabbed to death.
* March 22, 2016 - Brussels becomes the target of Islamist attacks when 32 people are killed in suicide bomb explosions at the airport and in the city's metro.
* Jan. 15, 2015 - A week after militant Islamist attacks in Paris on the Charlie Hebdo magazine and a Jewish grocery, Belgian police kill two men who opened fire on them during one of about a dozen raids against an Islamist group that federal prosecutors said was about to launch “terrorist attacks on a grand scale”.
Persons:
Johanna Geron, Emmanuel Macron, Salah Abdesalam, El, Charlie Hebdo, Mehdi Nemmouche, Richard Lough, Matthew Lewis
Organizations:
Belgian, REUTERS, Islamic State, Islamic, Jewish Museum, Thomson
Locations:
Brussels, Belgium, Israel, France, Europe, Belgian, city's, Paris, Syria, French, Marseille