Belgian prosecutors see no ‘terror motive’ in knife attack

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BRUSSELS (AP) – Three people wounded by a knife-wielding man at a major underground railway station in Brussels have been discharged from the hospital and the attack isn’t considered to be terrorism, prosecutors said yesterday.

Social media posts on Monday evening showed video of police with their guns pointed at a man at the Schuman station, while images pictured another man wrapped in a foil blanket as he was attended to by paramedics.

“The suspect’s motive is not yet known, but at this stage nothing indicates that it was an extremist/terrorist motive,” the Brussels prosecutor’s office said in a statement.

It said the 30-year-old man, who wasn’t identified, wasn’t previously known to police.

Police surround a man on the floor of a metro station. PHOTO: AP