Three people were injured, one seriously, in a knife attack in a Brussels metro station late Monday afternoon, according to a new report from Belgian police who arrested the attacker.
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“Knife attack at the Schuman station: cooperation with the various police services […] enabled the author’s swift arrest,” tweeted the Mayor of Brussels, Philippe Close.
After initially only one injured person was reported, the federal police told the AFP news agency that a total of three people had been injured in the attack, one of them “in critical condition”.
The police did not provide any information about the motives of the attacker. The federal prosecutor announced that it had not been secured “at this stage”.
According to a source familiar with the matter, the person arrested was “already known to have a psychiatric history.”
The attack happened around 6 p.m. in the Schuman metro station, which is a few tens of meters from the headquarters of the European Commission and the European Council.
According to an AFP journalist present at the scene, several plainclothes police officers then rushed to a platform.
At the same time, a woman told passengers entering the station to turn back and reported the presence of a person armed with a knife inside.
In the early evening, traffic remained disrupted on part of the two metro lines that passed Schuman station, and the police continued their investigation at the scene, according to the Brussels Transport Authority (Stib).