Police discovered the body of a woman at the home of the gunman who killed four people when he yesterday opened fire on Christmas shoppers in the Belgian city of Liege, media reports said today.

The dead woman, aged 45, apparently worked as a cleaner for a neighbour of 33-year-old Nordine Amrani, who apparently turned his revolver on himself after going on the rampage at midday Tuesday, the reports said.

Amrani had yesterday morning asked her into his home on the pretext of offering her work and then attacked her, the regional press group SudPresse said.

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