(Ghent) The security experts in Brussels yesterday advised the Government to reduce its security rating from a threat level of 3 (a serious and credible threat) to 2 (average and
unlikely).
Less than 24 hours later police operating at the main train station in the city of Ghent were forced to shoot a knifeman who attacked them, the man was seriously injured and has been operated on at a local hospital.
data-lang="en">Whilst the authorities have declined to offer any information regards the man who was shot an eye witness interviewed by the state broadcaster VRT quoted a witness who stated:
De spoorwegpolitie heeft vanavond een man neergeschoten in het station Gent-Sint-Pieters. Meer informatie: https://t.co/FFfl7ILcE1 #vrtnws #gent pic.twitter.com/4x8Fq0ePCo— VRT NWS (@vrtnws) January 23, 2018
"A man walked into the station and passed by barely a meter from me, he babbled a foreign language and was waving a knife, the police in the station hall signaled that he had to stop, but he did not listen. Then I heard three shots, the man also had a package with him, I thought it was a bomb,"
