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This article is a list of mass shootings in Belgium. Mass shootings are firearm-related violence with at least four casualties.
The data includes casualties of perpetrators, including self-inflicted gunshot or shooting of a perpetrator by police. The treatment of perpetrator casualties is at variance to some but not all definitions of a mass shooting used in the United States. The inclusion of injured victims in the data is also at variance with some of the US definitions that only include dead victims. However, the above treatment is consistent with that used in other Wikipedia lists of mass shootings by country.
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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26 June 2024 | Saint-Gilles, Brussels | 2 | 3 | 5 | Two people were shot and killed with three others injured in a gang-related shooting at a cafe next to the Brussels-Midi railway station. [1] |
6 December 2023 | City of Brussels, Brussels | 0 | 5 | 5 | Five people were shot and injured in a gang-related shooting. [2] [3] |
29 May 2018 | Liège, Liège Province | 4 [n 1] | 4 | 8 | 2018 Liège attack: A prisoner on temporary leave from prison, stabbed two female police officers, took their guns, shot and killed them and a civilian. [4] [5] The gunman then took a woman hostage, shot and injured four other police officers before he was killed by police. [6] [7] [8] |
30 August 2016 | City of Brussels, Brussels | 4 | 0 | 4 | Jewish Museum of Belgium shooting: A man shot and killed four people at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in an antisemitic Islamist terrorist attack. [9] [10] |
13 December 2011 | Liège, Liège Province | 7 [n 1] | 147 | 154 | 2011 Liège attack: A man threw grenades and fired an FN FAL [11] rifle at civilians on the Place Saint-Lambert. The attack killed five and left one hundred and forty seven others injured, seven seriously. [12] [13] The man killed himself at the scene with a revolver. Earlier that day, he had also murdered a woman in his house. [14] |
11 May 2006 | Antwerp, Antwerp Province | 2 | 2 [n 1] | 4 | 2006 Antwerp shooting: A man shot and killed two people and injured another, before being shot and incapacitated by police. [15] [16] [17] |
Date | Location | Dead | Injured | Total | Description |
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6 August 1998 | Malonne, Namur Province | 1 | 5 | 6 | A man fired from a car at people outside a nightclub, wounding six people, one of whom died of her injuries. [18] |
4 April 1993 | Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Brussels | 0 | 4 | 4 | Three shooters fired at the entrance of a dance hall, wounding four people. [19] |
6 August 1991 | Beloeil, Hainaut Province | 5 | 0 | 5 | Two adults and three children were found tied up and shot to death with rifles in a forested area. A 27-year-old suspect was arrested. [20] |
12 May 1987 | Bogaarden, Flemish Brabant & Denderwindeke, East Flanders | 8 [n 1] | 3 | 11 | Michel Van Wijnendaele: A man entered a farm in Bogaarden, where he shot and killed five members and injured one other of one family before heading to a neighbouring farm where he killed a woman and her son for apparently having witnessed the shooting. The man would later shoot and wound his parents-in-law in Denderwindeke. [21] [22] |
9 November 1985 | Aalst, East Flanders | 8 | 15 | 23 | Brabant killers: A series of armed and violent supermarket robbery by a group of unidentified criminals referred to as the Brabant killers. [23] [24] [25] A total of 28 people died and 22 were injured in their attacks. |
27 September 1985 | Braine-l'Alleud, Walloon Brabant | 3 | 2 | 5 | |
Overijse. Flemish Brabant | 5 | 1 | 6 | ||
18 November 1979 | Hannut, Liège Province | 2 | 26 | 28 | A soldier on leave fired a rifle into a crowd at a cross country race, killing two people and wounding twenty-six others. [26] |
23 June 1973 | Sint-Amandsberg, East Flanders | 5 | 0 | 5 | Steyaert family murders: Two men shot and killed a family of five. [27] |
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