On the afternoon of 24 May 2014, a gunman opened fire at the Jewish Museum of Belgium in Brussels, killing four people in an antisemitic Islamist terrorist attack. Three of them, an Israeli couple on holiday and a French woman, died at the scene. The fourth victim, a Belgian employee of the museum, later died of his injuries in hospital. Six days after the attack, on 30 May 2014, Mehdi Nemmouche, a 29-year-old French national of Algerian origin, was arrested during a routine drugs check in Marseille, France, when he was found to be carrying weapons identical to those used in the shooting. A second suspect, Nacer Bendrer, was later identified and arrested.
At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium.
On May 24, in the year 2014, At least three people are killed in a shooting at Brussels' Jewish Museum of Belgium. This event is recorded as a Historical Events event in the history of May 24, one of 392 recorded events on this date across all of history.
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- This event took place on May 24, 2014 (AD era).
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