A Belgian police officer was killed in a knife attack in Brussels on Thursday, authorities said, as anti-terror prosecutors took charge of the inquiry.
The spokesperson for the prosecutor's office, Eric Van Duyse, told AFP that federal investigators had taken charge"because there is suspicion of a terrorist motive, which will be confirmed or disproved".
A local resident told AFP that he had heard"five or six shots" fired shortly after the time of the attack. Several news outlets reported, without giving their source, that the assailant had earlier on Thursday gone into a police station in the city to warn that he would try to attack police, but he was not detained.
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