比利時：週二襲擊爲恐怖活動

A man who murdered three people Tuesday in the Belgium city of Liege engaged in an act of terrorism, prosecutors said Wednesday.

Benjamin Herman repeatedly stabbed two femAle officers with a knife from behind before seizing their handguns and shooting them as they laid on the ground. Herman also shot to death a man who was a passenger in a passing car. Police fatally shot Herman after taking at least one woman hostage at a nearby school.

Investigators said Herman's methods were encouraged in online videos produced by the Islamic State militant group.

Prosecutors said Herman yelled "Allahu akbar," an Arabic expression for "God is great" several times during the killing spree.

Belgium has been on high alert since January 2015, when authorities neutralized a terror cell in a town near Liege that was plotting an attack on police. The cell was linked to the mastermind of the November 2015 IS attacks on Paris that killed 130 people.

In March 2016, IS suicide attackers targeted a Brussels airport and subway station, killing 32 people.比利時檢察官週三表示，週二在比利時列日市發生的一名男子殺害三人的事件是恐怖主義行爲。

涉嫌兇手本傑明·赫爾曼多次從背後持刀刺傷兩名女警察，然後奪過她們的手槍在她們倒地後將她們開槍打死。赫爾曼還槍殺了在一輛路過汽車裏的乘客。在警察將他擊斃之前，他還在附近一所學校劫持至少一名女性人質。

調查人員表示，赫爾曼的做法在伊斯蘭國組織的在線視頻中受到鼓勵。

檢察官說，赫爾曼在濫殺時多次高叫“真主偉大”。

比利時自2015年1月以來一直處於高度警戒狀態，當時警方破獲了列日市附近一個小鎮的恐怖活動小組，這個小組正密謀襲擊警察。該小組也與2015年11月巴黎發生的伊斯蘭國襲擊事件的主謀有關。那次襲擊造成130人死亡。

2016年3月，伊斯蘭國組織的自殺式殺手襲擊了布魯塞爾的一個機場和地鐵站，造成32人死亡。