A spokesman said the authority had taken over the investigation on suspicion of a terrorist motive. An attacker attacked two patrol officers with a knife in the Belgian capital on Thursday evening, and one police officer died.
According to media reports, the attacker stabbed the police near the Gare du Nord train station in the Schaerbeek district. A police officer called to back up shot him and “put him out of action”. The stabber was arrested and taken to the hospital. According to media reports, shots hit him in the stomach and one leg. Hours earlier, the suspect is said to have made “threats against the police” at the police station in another part of the city, he had been taken to a psychiatric ward but did not stay there.
Source: Nachrichten
