Belgium and Sweden were playing a Euro 2024 qualifier Monday in Brussels.
The Swedish outlet TV6 said that the Swedish team did not wish to resume the game in the second half, and that the Belgian players agreed,
More than 35,000 soccer fans holed up in the nearby national stadium for hours as the capital went on its highest terror alert level with the assailant at large.A supporter is comforted on the stands after suspension of the Euro 2024 group F qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. The match was abandoned at halftime after two Swedes were killed in a shooting in central Brussels before kickoff.
“I have just offered my sincere condolences to the Swedish PM following tonight’s harrowing attack on Swedish citizens in Brussels,” Belgian Prime Minister Alexander de Croo wrote on X after the shooting in his country.Police cordon off an area where a shooting took place in the center of Brussels, Monday, Oct. 16, 2023. Belgian police say that two people are dead in central Brussels after several shots were fired.“Our thoughts are with the families and friends who lost their loved ones.
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