Two people were killed and two injured. this monday at three knife attacks Processed within a few minutes in 3 municipalities Brusselsfor the time being, he established a relationship between them without the police.
All three attacks occurred in municipalities. Anderlecht, Saint-Gilles and Molenbeek According to police sources quoted tonight by local media Sudinfo and the Belgian agency, it was late in the afternoon with a 30-minute break and denied that the three cases were linked.
In the Anderlecht case, around 6 pm local time, a man attacked two passers-by, a cyclist, with a knife within minutes of each other, and fled.
wounded, one of them has very serious prognosisThey were transferred to a hospital.
Actively wanted by the police, the suspect was spotted on a university campus in an area evacuated and wanted by police officers.
The fugitive was later traced to a nearby metro station in Anderlecht, also west of the Belgian capital.
Two other incidents occurred just minutes after the first in Saint-Gilles and Molenbeek-Saint-Jean, both reported deaths, according to police sources.
A person died at place de Bethléem in Saint-Gilles when he was stabbed in the neck around 6:20 pm local time.
The attacker also escaped, and the exact motives are unknown, but according to sudinfo the attack may have been about a showdown.
The third attack occurred shortly after 18:30 on Rue de Koninck in Molenbeek-Saint-Jean. fight at homeless shelter and a man was stabbed and died in hospital soon after. The attacker was arrested in this incident.