Attacker 'critical' After Stabbing Outside Brussels Police Station
Mohammad Ali (@ChaudhryMAli88) Published November 21, 2018 | 01:24 AM
Brussels, (APP - UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News - 20th Nov, 2018 ) :A Brussels police officer was wounded and a terrorism inquiry has been launched after pre-dawn knife attack Tuesday, Belgian officials said.
The suspect in the attack was shot by two of the officer's colleagues and has also been hospitalised in a "critical condition" The stabbing came during a state visit to Belgium by French President Emmanuel Macron that has revived memories of the Paris and Brussels attacks.
Brussels prosecutors said an investigating magistrate will open an inquiry into possible "attempted murder in a terrorist contect" but that a motive had not been established.
Federal prosecutors, who would oversee a terrorist case, have not yet joined the investigation.
"The suspect had several kitchen knives in his hands and stabbed the officer several times," the prosecutor's office said, adding that the officer had been treated for a neck wound and was expected to survive.
"The inquiry will determine if this was a terrorist act," it added.
Earlier, Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon said, "a priori", the suspect in the "cowardly attack" was not listed in Belgium's counter-terrorism database.
The assailant stabbed the officer outside the central police station in Brussels' historic city centre at 5:30am (0430 GMT), police spokeswoman Ilse van de Keere told AFP.
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