He was recently released from jail despite evidence of radicalization.
Belgium terrorist on ‘day leave’ from jail
Belgium terrorist on ‘day leave’ from jail
WARNING: GRAPHIC
A KNIFE-WIELDING prison inmate on day leave stabbed two female police officers in the Belgian city of Liege stole their weapons and shot them and a bystander dead in a terror-related attack.
The carnage in the gritty eastern industrial city of Liege began around 10:30am (6:30pm AEST) on Tuesday when the attacker armed with a knife repeatedly stabbed the two officers before using their own firearms to kill them, prosecutors said.
The assailant was identified as Belgian national, 36-year-old Benjamin Herman.
His victims have been named as Lucile Garcia, 45, and Soraya Belkacemi, 53.
A 22-year-old man, Cyril Vangriecken, was also shot dead as he sat in a parked car with his mother.
Ms Belkacemi was the mother of 13-year-old twin daughters who earlier lost their father, also a police officer.
Four other officers were wounded in the attack, one seriously with a severed femoral artery.
Herman is suspected of being radicalised in prison by Islamist militants.