Belgium raises terror alert to highest level after two shot dead in Brussels

Belgium’s Prime Minister Alexander De Croo suggested the attack was linked to “terrorism” and convened an emergency meeting of senior cabinet ministers

Police cordon off an area where a shooting took place (AP Photo/Sylvain Plazy)

Belgian authorities have raised the terror alert to its highest level in the capital after the fatal shooting of two Swedish people in Brussels which Prime Minister Alexander De Croo suggested was linked to terrorism.

The OCAD anti-terror centre also said the terror alert for the rest of the country had been raised to its second-highest level.