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From the Liveblog of Wednesday, October 5, 2016

Police stabbed in Brussels not in life-threatening condition

5 October 2016, 5:16 pm

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Neither officer stabbed in Brussels suffered life-threatening injuries, police there say.

A security perimeter set around n the scene where two police officers were stabbed on October 5, 2016 in the Schaerbeek neighborhood in Brussels. (AFP PHOTO / BELGA / DIRK WAEM) — A security perimeter set around the scene where two police officers were stabbed on October 5, 2016, in the Schaerbeek neighborhood in Brussels. (AFP PHOTO / BELGA / DIRK WAEM)

Both were wearing plainclothes.

“We have elements to believe that the incident was a terrorist attack,” Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor’s office, tells AFP.

Earlier in the day, the city’s Gare du Nord train station was evacuated over a bomb scare. The incident was later ruled a false alarm.

Police and army personnel stand guard during a bomb alert outside the Brussels-North train station in Brussels, on October 5, 2016. (AFP/ BELGA / THIERRY ROGE)

— with AFP

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