BRUSSELS — A suspected suicide bomber was fatally shot by Belgian soldiers after a small explosion went off in Brussels Central Station on Tuesday evening. <br /> <br />Local media La Libre reported that the attacker was a man aged from 30 to 35, wearing a backpack and an explosive belt. Reports say he detonated a device when the soldiers in the station took notice of him. <br /> <br />Station employee Nicolas Van Herrewegen was quoted in various news reports saying the man shouted "Allahu Akbar" before detonating something on a luggage trolley. <br /> <br />Soldiers opened fire on the man after the explosion. Authorities later confirmed the man was killed. His identity has not yet been confirmed. <br /> <br />“This is considered as a terrorist attack,” Belgian federal prosecutor's office spokesman Eric Van Der Sypt said in a news conference outside Brussels Gare Centrale station. <br /> <br />The blast came just a day after an assailant rammed an explosive-laden car into a police van in Paris, and another man targeting Muslims mowed down a group of people near a London mosque in a separate incident on Monday.
