A person has been stabbed to death by another passenger while they were aboard a De Lijn bus in Antwerp. The stabbing took place at around 2:30pm on Monday. A suspect has been arrested.
The incident took place while the bus was travelling down the Ernest Claesstraat on Antwerp’s Left Bank. The emergency services rushed to the scene. Around an hour after the stabbing the police could only confirm that it had taken place and that one person had been killed and another two people had been injured.
They have been taken to the Cadix Hospital for treatment. "A suspect was arrested aboard the bus. A forensics team is at the scene”, a police spokesperson said.