A woman has died after she was stabbed at the café she runs in the Brussels municipality of Schaarbeek. The stabbing took place at around 8:40pm on Tuesday at the café on the Diamantlaan in a residential area of Schaarbeek, around 1km from Brussels’ European District.
Yasmina Vanoverschelde of the Brussels prosecutor’s office told journalists that “This evening at around 8:40pm the Brussels North Local Police Service was called to the Diamantlaan. There a woman was lying serious injured at the entrance to a house”.
"On their arrival the emergency services gave the victim first aid. The victim eventually succumbed to her injuries and died. The Brussels prosecutor’s office has been informed of what happened, but at this moment we can’t provide any further information”.
A Federal Police helicopter was deployed to help search for the suspect. It is as yet unknow whether anyone has been apprehended in connection wxith the fatal stabbing.