The Antwerp Local Police Service reports that 4 people were injured after they were stabbed outside Antwerp Central railway station on Monday evening. None of those injured are in a critical condition. Ine Werensteyn runs a chip shop near to where the incident occurred. She told VRT News that she saw people with injuries to their shoulder and legs after they had been attacked by a man brandishing a machete.
Kim Bastiaens of the Antwerp Local Police Service told VRT News that "At around 7:30pm we received a called about a fight on the Koningin Astridplein. In the fight 4 people sustained stab wounds".
Ine Werensteyn was working in a chip shop on the Koningin Astridplein on Monday evening. She saw the fight start. "First around 80 people were arguing on the square. Afterwards a man with a machete arrived and he stabbed 3 people. 1 of them was stabbed in the shoulder, the 2 others in the leg. Afterwards he threw the machete into the bushes and ran away”.
Ms Werensteyn says that a large number of police and ambulances were at the scene quickly. "But when the ambulances left a group of people started causing trouble with the police. I have heard that the trouble started over drugs”. A large part of the Koningin Astridplein that is the square in front of Antwerp Central railway station was cordoned off for several hours on Monday evening.
The Antwerp Local Police Service says that 4 people were injured and that a total of 7 people have been arrested. There is as yet no further information available concerning the exact circumstance surrounding the fight.
