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EU ministers have urged member states to do more to screen migrants and expel those regarded as a security risk, amid rising concerns over militant attacks.
2 Swedish nationals were shot dead while another person was injured during a possible terror attack in Brussels. Some reports claimed that the suspected assailant chanted ‘Allahu Akbar’ before the shooting.
Officials said police opened fire and the suspect was "neutralised" during the arrest, which followed an intensive overnight manhunt in the Belgian capital for an assailant armed with an automatic rifle.
While the number of attacks and deaths carried out in the name of radical Islamic ideology in Europe has remained low in recent years, arrests for related activities have been creeping up.
Convicted murderers face life sentence in Belgium.