One police officer killed, another injured in knife attack in Brussels

A Brussels police officer died of his wounds after a knife assault on Thursday evening, in response to the prosecutor’s workplace within the Belgian capital.

The occasions occurred at round 7:15 pm within the Brussels commune of Schaerbeek/Schaarbeek, close to the Gare du Nord/Brussel-Noord practice station. 

A person armed with a knife attacked a patrol of two law enforcement officials. An officer from one other patrol responding to a name for backup used his firearm to “neutralise the attacker”, in response to Belgian information company Belga.

Native media reported that the suspect had suffered gunshot wounds to the legs and stomach and was transferred to the hospital.

Each officers have been additionally taken to the hospital. Considered one of them, stabbed within the neck, didn’t survive, Le Soir newspaper reported. The motive for the assault is unclear right now.

Belgian Inside Minister Annelies Verlinden mentioned the occasion represented “horrible drama” that “breaks my coronary heart” in a publish on Twitter on Thursday night.

“My ideas are in the beginning with the family members, the members of the police zone and your entire police power,” Verlinden mentioned.

The assault is the second knife-related incident involving law enforcement officials in Brussels this week. 

On Monday, the police fired pictures at a person who got here at them with a knife in downtown Rue Locquenghien, close to Sainte Catherine. 

The person, who was mentioned to have been drunk and disorderly, was in essential situation, in response to the native press.