Two people were shot dead by a lone gunman in the Belgian capital of Brussels on Monday evening in a developing situation, according to local media reports.
Images circulating on social media show an armed man dressed in a florescent orange jacket close to the city’s Place Sainctelette shooting indiscriminately as people run to escape.
The killer is still at large with other images show him riding off on a scooter. Brussels Mayor Philippe Close said in a short statement around 3.20 pm ET that police services had mobilized “to ensure security in and around the capital”.
Close said he was at the country’s crisis centre with Minister of the Interior Annelies Verlinden and Brussels Police Chief Michel Goovaerts.
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