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‘Terror attack’ in Brussels as two cops are stabbed and train station evacuated over bomb scare

Bruxelles Nord station was emptied after police received a call warning of a bomb threat

A TRAIN station in Brussels has been evacuated following a bomb scare - while elsewhere in the city two cops were stabbed and another wounded in a suspected terror attack.

Bruxelles Nord station was emptied after police received a call warning of a bomb threat.

Armed police were seen standing guard during a bomb alert at the Brussels-North train station
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Armed police were seen standing guard during a bomb alert at the Brussels-North train stationCredit: Getty Images
Three cops were stabbed elsewhere in the city, as the train station and prosecutor's office were both evacuated
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Three cops were stabbed elsewhere in the city, as the train station and prosecutor's office were both evacuatedCredit: Getty Images
The man who stabbed the policeman was shot in the leg as he tried to flee the scene, pictured
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The man who stabbed the policeman was shot in the leg as he tried to flee the scene, picturedCredit: AP:Associated Press

It comes after two officers were stabbed at a checkpoint close to the station in the city's Schaerbeek neighbourhood, reports, during an identity check.

The assailant resisted arrested but was wounded when a policeman - whose nose was broken during a struggle - shot him in the leg as he tried to flee the scene.

The train station and prosecutor's office bomb threats are being treated as two separate incidents.

The policemen suffered injuries to the neck and stomach after being attacked by a man armed with a Swiss army knife.

Their condition is not thought to be life-threatening.

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A station spokesman said: "A message of an alleged bomb threat was sent to the police, all the people were evacuated from the station, the trains have stopped.

"This will continue until security services inspect the station, minimum an hour."

Meanwhile, Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office, told AFP: "We have elements to believe that the incident was a terrorist attack."

It is allegedly the second time the station has been emptied this week over a suspected bomb alert.

Brussels' federal prosecutor's office told La Libre Belgique that it had "reason to believe [the stabbing] was a terrorist attack"
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Brussels' federal prosecutor's office told La Libre Belgique that it had "reason to believe [the stabbing] was a terrorist attack"Credit: AP:Associated Press
A knife is pictured on the scene where two policemen were stabbed
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A knife is pictured on the scene where two policemen were stabbedCredit: AP:Associated Press
Another officer's nose was broken as the assailant resisted arrest
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Another officer's nose was broken as the assailant resisted arrestCredit: Getty Images

Brussels remains on high alert following terror attacks across the country in March, which killed 32 people.

In August, a machete-wielding man shouting "Allahu Akbar" - Arabic for "God is Great" - attacked and seriously wounded two policewomen in the southern Belgian city of Mons. The assailant was shot dead, and the attack was later claimed by ISIS.

Then, on September 7, a man carrying a knife attacked two police officers in the Molenbeek area of Brussels, but the officers were wearing bulletproof vests and suffered only bruises, prosecutors said. The assailant said nothing during that attack and gave no indication of his motives.

Meanwhile, one local caught up in today's scare wrote on Twitter: "Second time this week Brussels north station is evacuated for bomb alert."

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