BELGIUM: Two children and an adult die in creche knife attack

Record ID: 353828

  • Title: BELGIUM: Two children and an adult die in creche knife attack
  • Date: 23rd January 2009
  • Summary: AMBULANCE LEAVES WIDE OF STREET
  • Embargoed: 7th February 2009 12:00
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  • Location: Belgium
  • Country: Belgium
  • Topics: Crime / Law Enforcement
  • Reuters ID: LVA4MKAYO9Z9RCPUVLNLYXR8BY70
  • Story Text: In Belgium, two children and an adult have been killed at a crèche by a knife wielding assailant An assailant killed two children and an adult in a knife attack at a crèche in western Belgium on Friday, authorities said.
    Ambulance services said at least 10 others had been injured.
    A Belgian Interior Ministry spokeswoman said the attacker killed the three in the small town of Dendermonde, 30 km (20 miles) west of Brussels, and had been arrested.
    Peter Cleymans, director of the local ambulance services, said others had been injured and taken to local hospitals.
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