Extremist suspected of killing Swedish football fans shot dead by Belgian police

Belgian authorities had raised the terror alert to its highest level in the capital after the fatal shooting in Brussels, which prime minister Alexander De Croo suggested was linked to terrorism.

Police cordon off an area where a shooting took place in the center of Brussels. Picture: AP Photo/Nicolas Landemard

Police in Belgium have shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish football fans on a street in Brussels.

Hours after a manhunt began in the Belgian capital, interior minister Annelies Verlinden told broadcaster VRT: “We have the good news that we found the individual.”