ISIS claims responsibility for Brussels shooting that left two dead

BRUSSELS – The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) claimed responsibility for

Monday’s attack in Brussels

, according to the group’s channel on Telegram on Tuesday, which said one of its fighters carried out the attack that killed two people.

A man suspected of shooting dead two Swedish football fans and wounding another in Brussels was a 45-year-old Tunisian who had an asylum application rejected in 2020 but continued to live in Belgium illegally, according to Belgian officials.

After an overnight manhunt,

police fatally shot the suspect at a cafe

in the Schaerbeek district of northern Brussels on Tuesday morning.

In neighbouring France, a man who

killed a school teacher in the north of the country

last week was charged with terror offences on Tuesday, a prosecutor said, after revealing that he had sworn allegiance to ISIS in an audio recording before his attack.

Last Friday’s killing in the town of Arras, coming amid the Israel-Hamas war, has jangled nerves in France and put it on high alert for further violence.

The suspected attacker, Mohammed Moguchkov, 20, from a mainly Muslim region of Russia, was charged by an anti-terror judge with murder linked to a terrorist conspiracy, as well as associating with terrorist criminals. He was remanded in custody. REUTERS