Two Swedes were killed in a shooting late Monday in central Brussels, Belgian police said.
Belgian authorities raised the terror alert to its highest level in the capital following the attack. The OCAD anti-terror center also said that the terror alert for the rest of the country was raised to its second-highest level.
Media reports aired amateur videos showing a man shooting several times near a station using a large weapon.
Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo confirmed on social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter, that the victims were Swedish, but not their number.
A police official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to reporters, said the two victims were Swedes.
The Swedish national team was scheduled to play Belgium at Heysel Stadium later in the evening, some 3 miles (5 kilometers) away.
Police spokeswoman Ilse Vande Keere said officers arrived soon at the scene, and sealed off the immediate neighborhood. She declined to elaborate on the circumstances of the shooting.
The shooting came at a time of increased vigilance linked to the ongoing Israel-Hamas war that has heightened tension in several European nations.
It was not immediately clear if the shooting was linked to the international uproar over the Israel-Hamas war.
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