{"id":1706,"date":"2023-10-17T01:17:20","date_gmt":"2023-10-16T22:17:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/1706\/belgium-sweden-abandoned-at-halftime-after-terrorist\/"},"modified":"2023-11-08T21:32:37","modified_gmt":"2023-11-08T18:32:37","slug":"belgium-sweden-abandoned-at-halftime-after-terrorist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/?p=1706","title":{"rendered":"Belgium-Sweden abandoned at halftime after \u2018terrorist attack\u2019 in Brussels, latest news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium-Sweden abandoned at halftime after \u2018terrorist attack\u2019 in Brussels, latest news\u060c<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Belgium&#8217;s Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden was abandoned at half-time on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) after a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; in Brussels left two Swedish nationals dead, officials said. responsible.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists at the Belgian capital&#8217;s King Baudouin stadium said fans were being held into the ground, and the UEFA website said the match was abandoned with the score 1-1.<\/p>\n<p>The Swedish <a class=\"wpil_keyword_link\" href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/tag\/football\/\"   title=\"Football\" data-wpil-keyword-link=\"linked\">Football<\/a> Association said Belgian police had asked fans &#8220;to stay in the arena for safety reasons.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFollowing a suspected terrorist attack in Brussels this evening, it has been decided, after consultation with both teams and local police authorities, that the UEFA EURO 2024 qualifying match between Belgium and Sweden is abandoned,\u201d it said. indicated UEFA on its website.<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch every match of the ICC Men&#8217;s Cricket World Cup live ad-free on Kayo Sports.  Join Kayo now and start streaming instantly ><\/b><\/p>\n<figure class=\"sc-11i7hbm-0 eUyOEq\"><amp-img alt=\"Supporters and officials wait in the stand after the Euro 2024 qualifying football match between Belgium and Sweden at the King Baudouin Stadium in Brussels on October 16, 2023, was stopped following an 'attack' that targeted Swedish citizens in a street of Brussels.\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/c68dfc267cb77fd00d8305df2b32e07e\" width=\"1280\" height=\"720\"  layout=\"responsive\" attribution=\"test\" class=\"i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" i-amphtml-layout=\"responsive\"><i-amphtml-sizer style=\"display:block;padding-top:56.25%\"\/><\/amp-img><figcaption class=\"sc-11i7hbm-1 gSnntl\"><span>Supporters and officials wait in the stand after the Euro 2024 qualifying soccer match between Belgium and Sweden was stopped at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels on October 16, 2023, following an &#8216;attack&#8217; who targeted Swedish citizens on a street in Brussels.<\/span><span>Source: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"sc-11i7hbm-0 eUyOEq\"><amp-img alt=\"Belgium's forward Romelu Lukaku kicks the ball next to Sweden's defender Filip Helander in the first half, before play was suspended.\" src=\"https:\/\/content.api.news\/v3\/images\/bin\/dbe98a55c846ab6775200dcb666deabf\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  layout=\"responsive\" attribution=\"test\" class=\"i-amphtml-layout-responsive i-amphtml-layout-size-defined\" i-amphtml-layout=\"responsive\"><i-amphtml-sizer style=\"display:block;padding-top:75%\"\/><\/amp-img><figcaption class=\"sc-11i7hbm-1 gSnntl\"><span>Belgian striker Romelu Lukaku kicks the ball past Swedish defender Filip Helander in the first half, before play was suspended.<\/span><span>Source: AFP<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Belgian national team posted on its social media that \u201cdue to the incidents that occurred in Brussels earlier in the night, the game is suspended.  Our thoughts are with everyone affected.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, two people were killed in a shooting in Brussels and prosecutors said the suspected gunman was on the run.  Prime Minister Alexander de Croo said the victims were Swedes.<\/p>\n<p>De Croo offered his condolences to the Swedish Prime Minister and pledged to fight \u201cterrorism\u201d together.<\/p>\n<p>Counterterrorism police were tasked with the investigation, amid global tension following last week&#8217;s bloody <a href=\"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/295\/england-team-honour-victims-israel-hamas-war-fa\/\">Hamas attack on Israel and the military response<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Before the suspension, Sweden scored through striker Viktor Gyokeres, but the home side equalized through Romelu Lukaku in the 31st minute.<\/p>\n<p>MORE SOON<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Belgium-Sweden abandoned at halftime after \u2018terrorist attack\u2019 in Brussels, latest news\u060c Belgium&#8217;s Euro 2024 qualifier against Sweden was abandoned at half-time on Monday (Tuesday AEDT) after a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221; in Brussels left two Swedish nationals dead, officials said. responsible. Journalists at the Belgian capital&#8217;s King Baudouin stadium said fans were being held into the ground, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1707,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[2075,2078,2074,2079,2076,464,714,2077],"class_list":["post-1706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-sports","tag-abandoned","tag-attack","tag-belgiumsweden","tag-brussels","tag-halftime","tag-latest","tag-news","tag-terrorist"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1706"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8021,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1706\/revisions\/8021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wikidollar.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}