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Nevin Al Sukari - Sana'a - The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a shooting in Brussels that killed two Swedes. — Reuters pic
BEIRUT, Oct 18 — The Islamic State group yesterday claimed responsibility for a shooting in Brussels that killed two Swedes, saying the attack targeted Sweden for its membership in a global coalition battling jihadists.
“An Islamic State fighter carried out an attack against” Swedish nationals on Monday, IS said in a statement issued on the jihadists’ news arm Amaq, adding that, “the attack comes in the context of operations called for by the Islamic State to target nationals of coalition countries”.
The man, of Tunisian origin living illegally in Belgium, gunned down two Swedes and injured a third on Monday evening on a street, just before the start of a Belgium-Sweden international football match.
The man — identified in media reports as 45-year-old Tunisian migrant Abdesalem Lassoued — was cornered and fatally wounded early on Tuesday, when Belgian police moved to detain him in a cafe.
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The attacker had served a prison sentence in Sweden during the period 2012-2014, Swedish officials revealed yesterday.
In a social media post after the killings, the gunman had boasted of being inspired by the IS group.
The Swedish foreign ministry said the victims were a man in his 70s from the Stockholm region and a man in his 60s living abroad. The injured Swede was a man in his 70s currently in hospital.
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It advised Swedes abroad “to observe increased caution and heightened vigilance.”
Sweden is among dozens of nations in the Global Coalition against Daesh, formed in 2014 after the militants seized huge swathes of Iraq and Syria. — AFP
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