Attack in Belgian city leaves 5 dead, 122 wounded

[James48843]

Lone gunman brings terror to streets of Belgian city with hand grenade attack

Lone gunman spread terror in the Belgian city of Liege, opening fire and throwing hand grenades onto a square packed Christmas shoppers, killing five people and himself, and injuring 122.


The killer was named as Nordine Amrani, 33, a known criminal and gun-lover who launched his rampage for reasons that police were still trying to fathom.

They stressed that Amrani had no known links to terrorism or any history of mental illness or violent crime, but it did emerge that he was released on parole last year from a 58-month sentence for possessing a cache of weapons and 2,800 cannabis plants.

His victims were two teenage boys aged 15 and 17, a man aged 20 and a 75-year-old woman. A 17-month-old girl later died of her wounds in hospital. The city's mayor said the teenagers were celebrating finishing their exams and were heading to the Christmas market when they were killed. Around 120 were injured.

Sad, sad news.

The gunman had recently been released from jail, where he had been serving time for weapons charges.

More:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/wor...of-Belgian-city-with-hand-grenade-attack.html

 

[nnuut]

Nnuuts are everywhere.

 

[nasa1974]

At least he took himself out. What is hard to understand is why these nut cases have to take it out on innocent people that have had nothing to do with their problems. How sad!!!