Belgium-Sweden Euro qualifier abandoned after shooting

Thousands of soccer fans were kept inside Belgium’s national stadium for about 2½ hours Monday after a game between Belgium and Sweden was abandoned at half-time following a gunman fatally shooting two Swedish people in Brussels before kickoff.

The European Championship qualifier was being played some 3 miles (5 kilometers) from the shooting in the center of the Belgian capital, and more than 35,000 fans attended the match. With the suspect still at large and reportedly going after Swedes, Belgian authorities kept fans inside the venue for security reasons before they started the evacuation around midnight local time.

Fans chanted “All together, all together,” inside the King Baudouin Stadium after the match was halted, with thousands of supporters from both sides also shouting “Sweden, Sweden!”

Manu Leroy, the CEO of the Belgian…