Attack in Belgium – level 3

01-06-2018 07:00

A drug dealer and robber who was radicalised in jail carried out a terror attack in Belgium that left three people dead.

Thirty-six-year-old Benjamin Herman was on day release in the city of Liege when he hunted down two female police officers, stole their guns and shot them dead, before killing a third person. He then took a cleaning lady as hostage inside a local high school where police later shot him dead.

A prison source reported that Herman became close to radical inmates, was ‘psychologically unstable’ and wanted to ‘carry out attacks when released’. Eyewitnesses said that he shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he launched the attack.

Difficult words: hostage (when a person holds someone to get something that they want from the police or authorities), source (a person who tells information), inmate (prisoner),  Allahu Akbar (the Arabic words for ‘God is great’), launch (start).

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