BELGIUM TERROR STABBING Attacker who yelled ‘Allahu akbar’ as he stabbed two female cops in Charleroi is shot dead by police

A MACHETE man who shouted ‘Allahu Akbar’ as he stabbed two female police officers in Belgium has been shot dead.

The cops were attacked outside a police station in the city of Charleroi on Saturday afternoon.

One has been seriously injured with wounds to the face.

A source said: "She was rushed to hospital and is in a particularly bad way."

The brutal stabbing is being treated as a terrorist attack.

"Initial indications clearly point towards terrorism," Prime Minister Charles Michel told television channel RTL.

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Machete ... Knifeman used highly dangerous blade to attack two female cops

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Stabbing ... Police officers cordon off area near a station in the Belgian town of Charleroi

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Shock ... One of the female officers involved in the attack is said to have suffered severe face wounds

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Alert ... Police patrol crime scene after knifeman screaming 'Allahu Akbar' attacked two officers in Charleroi, Belgium

The terrorist began his brutal assault when he arrived outside the police station at around 4pm.

"He immediately took a machete out of the sports bag he was carrying and violently struck at the faces of the two policewomen who were on guard duty, shouting 'Allahu akbar'," Charleroi police spokesman David Quinaux told local media.

The attacker was "neutralised" by a third officer and later died of gunshot wounds.

Prosecutors are expecting to identify the knifeman on Sunday. 

Police in Charleroi tweeted: "Two police officers injured by machete in front of police by someone shouting Allah Akkbar (sic)."

A security cordon was put up around the Boulevard Pierre Mainz in the southern Belgian city.

Mr Michel, who is returning from holiday to meet security officials on Sunday, condemned the attack.

"Thoughts go with the victims, their relatives and police officers," he wrote on Twitter.

"We are closely monitoring the situation."

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Response ... Police shot and killed the machete attacker

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Response ... Cops secured the area around a police building in the southern Belgian city of Charleroi following the machete attack

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Danger ... Belgian town of Charleroi is thought to have been the place the November Paris attackers collected their guns and explosives

Charleroi has often been associated with extremist gangs, especially as a place where weapons are kept.

The ISIS unit which attacked Paris last November, killing 130 people in one night, is said to have picked up its AK47 and explosives in the city before heading for the French capital.

Belgium is currently on a threat level three out of four, meaning a terrorist attack is "possible or probable".

The country is the biggest EU exporter of homegrown terrorists travelling to fight for ISIS in Syria.

In March, three suicide bombers attacked Brussels Airport and Maalbeek metro station in the centre of the capital, killing 32 people.