Extremist is shot dead after fans are killed

POLICE in Belgium have shot dead a suspected Tunisian extremist accused of killing two Swedish football fans on a street in Brussels.

Hours after a manhunt began in the Belgian capital, Interior Minister Annelies Verlinden told broadcaster VRT: "We have the good news that we found the individual." She said that the weapon believed to have been used in the shooting was recovered.

Amateur videos posted on social media of Monday's attack showed a man wearing an orange fluorescent vest pull up on a scooter, take out a large weapon and open fire on passers by before chasing them into a building to gun them down.