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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.

21st century

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Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
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]

20th century

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Date Location Dead Injured Total Description
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]

See also

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Notes

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  1. ^ a b c d Including the perpetrator or suspect

References

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  1. ^ Times, The Brussels. "Two killed and three injured in shooting near Brussels-Midi station". www.brusselstimes.com. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  2. ^ Times, The Brussels. "Shooting in central Brussels: Former Red Devils player injured in gang shooting". www.brusselstimes.com. Retrieved 24 April 2025.
  3. ^ EFE, Agencia (6 December 2023). "Four wounded in shooting in Brussels shopping area - EFE". EFE Noticias. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  4. ^ Crisp, James (29 May 2018). "Belgium shooting: Terror investigation launched after 'released prisoner' kills two police officers before taking hostage in Liege". The Telegraph. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  5. ^ "Belgium shooting: Two police officers, passerby killed in Liege". CNN. 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  6. ^ "Liege shooting: Two police and passer-by dead in Belgium". BBC. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  7. ^ "Belgium gunman 'had killed the day before'". BBC News. 30 May 2018. Retrieved 30 May 2018.
  8. ^ "Ce que l'on sait des victimes de l'attaque à Liège". FIGARO (in French). 29 May 2018. Retrieved 29 May 2018.
  9. ^ "82 seconds of terror at Brussels' Jewish museum". France 24. 7 January 2019.
  10. ^ "Fusillade à Bruxelles: le parquet qualifie les faits de "terroristes"" [Shooting in Brussels: prosecutors call the acts "terrorism"]. La Libre (in French). 26 May 2014. Archived from the original on 28 May 2014. Retrieved 27 May 2014.
  11. ^ e-TF1 (13 December 2011). "Quatre morts et 75 blessés dans une fusillade à Liège – Vidéo replay du journal televise : Le journal de 20h – TF1". Videos.tf1.fr. Archived from the original on 8 January 2012. Retrieved 14 December 2011.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  12. ^ Times, The Brussels. "Nearly 13 years later, relatives of shooting victim move to Appeal Court". www.brusselstimes.com. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  13. ^ "Leiche im Haus des Täters entdeckt" [Body found in suspect's home]. Focus Online (in German). 9 September 2015. Archived from the original on 12 December 2022. Retrieved 12 December 2022.
  14. ^ "Liège : 4 morts et des dizaines de blessés (live)" (in French). lesoir.be. Archived from the original on 22 December 2011. Retrieved 13 December 2011.
  15. ^ (in Dutch) In 54 minuten veranderde alles ("In 54 minutes, everything changed") - Van Themsche's 11 May 2006 in great detail, journal Het Nieuwsblad, 26 September 2007
  16. ^ (in Dutch) Moorden Antwerpen / Racisme was de drijfveer voor koele moordenaar Archived 30 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine ("Murders Antwerp / Racism was the motivation for cool blooded murderer"), journal (in The Netherlands) Trouw, 12 May 2006
  17. ^ "Wapenwet: Wapen als Van Themsche? Wij kochten het via internet". Gva.be. 21 November 2012. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
  18. ^ Hermans, Pierre (30 September 1988). "La fusillade". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 13 May 2025.
  19. ^ Guillaume, Alain (5 April 1993). "UNE FUSILLADE DE LA SAINT-ISIDORE DANS UN DANCING BRUXELLOIS MIRANO: 4 BLESSES SEULEMENT". Le Soir (in French). Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  20. ^ "Le quintuple meurtre de Beloeil Un suspect est interpellé après l'assassinat d'une famille française en Belgique". Le Monde (in French). 9 August 1991. Retrieved 23 May 2025.
  21. ^ Gunman Kills 7 in Belgium, The New York Times (May 13, 1987)
  22. ^ Amok: Sieben Tote und dann Selbstmord, Hamburger Abendblatt (May 13, 1987)
  23. ^ Times, The Brussels. "The enduring mystery of the Brabant Killers, Belgium's biggest cold case". www.brusselstimes.com. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  24. ^ "The Brabant Killers". Unresolved. Retrieved 23 April 2025.
  25. ^ "'Crazy Brabant Killers': Brussels murder mystery 'clue'". BBC News. 24 October 2017. Archived from the original on 3 February 2021. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  26. ^ ""L'affaire Renard m'a le plus marqué"". L'Avenir (in French). 14 May 2025. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  27. ^ "Freddy Horion ondervraagd over verdwijning aalmoezenier in 1982". De morgen. 17 August 2007. Archived from the original on 26 September 2007.
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