One person is injured following a shooting and stabbing incident on Bergensesteenweg in the Brussels borough of Anderlecht on Wednesday evening, local police in the Brussels South police zone (Anderlecht/Sint-Gillis/Vorst) confirm. During the shooting, shots were fired at two individuals but they remained unharmed; however, they then proceeded to stab a third person who had nothing to do with the shooting, police say.
It was at around 11 pm last night that the emergency services were called to a shooting in Anderlecht. “A fight between four people got out of hand,” the police say. “Two of them are said to have produced a firearm and fired at the two others.”
“According to initial reports, two people are said to have shot at two others. The two people who were shot at are then said to have attacked and stabbed a fifth person, who was not involved in the shooting.”
The victim was ferried to hospital but is not in a life-threatening condition, the police add. An investigation has been launched to establish the exact circumstances of this unsettling incident in our capital city.
