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Multiple People Stabbed By Woman With Machete In Brussels Street Attack
2016-08-22
Moments ago, Belgian media reported that police had shot and wounded a woman in a Brussels suburb after she attempted to stab three people with a machete. The attack reportedly took place on a bus in the municipality of Uccle in the Belgian capital. The injuries sustained by the victims have been described as "non life-threatening." Police warned the attacker, who refused to comply, before shooting her in the arm.

According to the national broadcaster RTBF, police sources have revealed that the woman - who has been arrested - was Asian and had a history of mental illness.
Assuming it's the kind of "Asian" I think it will turn out to be, the police seem to be repeating themselves.
Investigators do not currently believe that this was a terrorist incident.
Certainly not. Just another deranged "Asian".
The street has been sealed off, with multiple police patrols present at the scene. The bus route on which the attack took place has been suspended.
Posted by:gorb

#16  Didn't need that Glenmore, Gack!
Posted by: Shipman   2016-08-22 22:50  

#15  Wonder if she was brandishing a Kukri Machete?
Posted by: Alaska Paul   2016-08-22 20:51  

#14  'Night Gallery', Skidmark?
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-08-22 20:48  

#13  Earwigs hatching.
Posted by: Skidmark   2016-08-22 20:42  

#12  Tw, probably because it's gotten too hard for them to get guns or knives.
Posted by: Glenmore   2016-08-22 20:40  

#11  One does have to wonder why so many mentally ill people are suddenly attacking random passers-by with sharp objects, when they had not been doing so previously.
Posted by: trailing wife   2016-08-22 20:38  

#10  Might happen in Georgia, but it wouldn't last long. Would NOT be a shot to the arm either.
Posted by: Besoeker   2016-08-22 15:57  

#9  Where's the rapier store?
Posted by: AlanC   2016-08-22 15:21  

#8  "Police warned the attacker, who refused to comply, before shooting her in the arm."

Sounds like the officer needs more time at the range.
Posted by: Crusader   2016-08-22 15:13  

#7  In Brussels, every blade more than 4" long is an AR-15 - oops - machete.
Posted by: Bobby   2016-08-22 15:12  

#6  Congo Surplus Store
Posted by: Shipman   2016-08-22 14:11  

#5  But where do you buy machete in Brussels?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-08-22 14:01  

#4  How come machete?

Truck, knife, bomb, rock...whatever's handy.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2016-08-22 13:56  

#3  How come machete?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-08-22 13:47  

#2  Obviously she is deranged. A machete is for hacking and slashing, not stabbing.
Posted by: SteveS   2016-08-22 13:41  

#1  An angry Walloon. "Everyone knows you do not put powdered sugar on a waffle Belgique..."
Posted by: M. Murcek   2016-08-22 13:30  

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