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.(Photo: FRED DUBOIS, AFP/Getty Images)
Belgian police shot and killed a machete-wielding man<span style="color: Red;">*</span>outside the Charleroi police station Saturday after he shouted "Allahu Akhbar (God is great)"<span style="color: Red;">*</span>and injured two female officers, police said.
The attacker later died from his wounds, Charleroi<span style="color: Red;">*</span>
police said on Twitter.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>The two wounded officers were "out of danger," police said.
The man, who apparently acted<span style="color: Red;">*</span>alone, introduced himself at the police security checkpoint then pulled his weapon out of a gym bag and struck the first officer in the face before turning to strike her colleague,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the Belgian newspaper
Le Soir reported. He was shot by a third officer.
The man, who has not been identified, shouted "Allahu Akhbar" during the attack, according to<span style="color: Red;">*</span>police spokesman David Quinaux, Belgian public broadcaster
RTBF reported.
A tight security perimeter was set up around the police station, although officials had not yet determined whether the attack was a terrorist act, RTBF reported.
Belgium<span style="color: Red;">*</span>remains on high alert in the wake of attacks in March in Brussels that killed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>32 people at the Brussels airport and at a metro station.
Charleroi is about 35 miles south of Brussels.
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