BRUSSELS (AP) — A lone assailant injured three people on Monday in a stabbing incident during the evening rush hour at a subway station under the European Union’s headquarters in Brussels before being detained by police, officials said.
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A police official, who asked not to be identified because the investigation was ongoing, said one of the three injured was taken to hospital in serious condition. The official did not provide more details.
Social media posts showed police with their guns pointed at a man at the Schuman station, while others showed a man being attended to by first aid officials outside it. The station is directly under the main office of the EU’s executive Commission.
The Brussels incident took on special significance after last week’s killing of a church official by a machete-wielding assailant in southern Spain.
In Germany two teenagers were stabbed to death and five other passengers injured on a train in northern Germany.
AP reporters on the scene in Brussels Monday said the area was quickly sealed off during the evening rush hour incident. Main broadcasters like RTL and VRT said panic briefly broke out in the subway station before order was restored.
I was there pic.twitter.com/Iemfkko0QS
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Calls to federal police about the incident were not immediately answered.
The subway service said the main line coming through Schuman was interrupted because of a “police intervention.”
One young man has been injured in a knife attack at Schuman station in Brussels.
The attacker has been arrested by police as per the picture.
Witnesses say he started the attack on a metro train and then ran through the station even attempting to attack a woman with a pram. pic.twitter.com/zFujVGH9hX
— Jack Parrock (@jackeparrock) January 30, 2023
Video van de aanhouding verdachte in station #Schuman in #Brussel vanavond pic.twitter.com/QrczVGlSIu
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