Belgian prosecutors have identified the machete-wielding man who attacked two policewomen as a 33-year-old Algerian known to police for criminal offenses but not for terrorist acts.

The Federal Prosecutor’s Office said Sunday that the man, who it identified only as K.B., had lived in Belgium since 2012. It also said two police searches had been carried out overnight in the Charleroi area.

The man was fatally shot by police Saturday afternoon after attacking and wounding two policewomen outside the main police station in Charleroi, a city in French-speaking southern Belgium.

(AP)