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Machete Attacker in Belgium's Charleroi Dies in Hospital

© AFP 2023 / FRED DUBOIS / BELGAA photo taken with a mobile phone on August 6, 2016, shows police securing the area around a police building in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi following a machete attack
A photo taken with a mobile phone on August 6, 2016, shows police securing the area around a police building in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi following a machete attack - Sputnik International
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The attacker, who assaulted two policemen with machete in the Belgian city of Charleroi, died in hospital, according to local media.

MOSCOW (Sputnik) — The man who attacked police officers in the Belgian city of Charleroi with a machete on Saturday died in hospital, the local RTBF broadcaster reported.

A photo taken with a mobile phone on August 6, 2016, shows a police officer standing guard close to a police building in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi following a machete attack - Sputnik International
Two Police Officers Wounded in Machete Attack in Belgian City of Charleroi
The attacker is said to have been shot by police earlier in the day after wounding two officers.

The police, said the attacker cried "Allahu Akbar" during the assault.

According to the Belgian Derniere Heure newspaper, one of the police officers sustained serious injuries and was taken to hospital, while the other was slightly wounded.

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