Belgian police shoot knife attacker

Belgian police shot and wounded a man who attacked one of the officers with a knife in Brussels.

“The man attacked one of our colleagues with a knife,” slightly wounding the officer on the head, said Brussels police spokeswoman Ilse Van De Keere.

Ms Van De Keere said that a second officer shot the attacker and “seriously wounded him”.

The spokeswoman for the Brussels prosecutor’s office, Ine Van Wymersch, said the incident did not appear to be terror related.

Prosecutors said the man had pulled out the knife when police tried to get him to move away from some government offices.

Three shots were fired at him after he struck one of the officers. “The suspect was hit by a bullet in the body and another in the leg. He is in critical condition,” the statement said.