BRUSSELS — Three people were shot dead and a fourth seriously wounded in an armed attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels on Saturday, officials said. Police detained one suspect and were looking for a second.
The bloodshed, which came on the eve of national and European Parliament elections, led officials to raise anti-terrorism measures.
Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, who was in the vicinity, said the scene “was terrible and left me shocked” as he saw the bodies of two of the victims lying at the entrance of the museum, which is in the swanky Sablon neighborhood of Belgium’s capital.
Ine Van Wymersch, a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office, said one suspect was detained after he drove away from the museum around the time of the attack. A second person being sought for questioning left the area on foot.
