Why would anyone do that…its a sad sad news…all the young victims…:(…
This world really has Evil evil people in it.The worstthing…he walked in and walked out and rode his bike as if nothing had happened!
3 dead, 12 wounded in Belgian day care stabbings - Yahoo! News
DENDERMONDE, Belgium – A man went on a rampage at a Belgian day care center Friday, stabbing two young children and a female worker to death and slashing 12 others all over their bodies, officials said.
Sobbing parents rushed to the scene and to hospitals, and medical workers sprung into action, performing emergency operations to save the 10 children and two adults who were badly wounded.
The attack caused widespread panic in the town 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of Brussels. The day care center serves up to 30 children on a residential street.
“An act of great brutality has happened here against our weakest citizens,” said mayor Buyse Piet. “The whole city is united in support for the parents who are in deep grief.”
Prosecutor Christian Du Four said the man rode his bike to the Fabeltjesland day care center, entered about 10 a.m. and immediately began slashing a knife around. The dead included two children — ranging in age up to 3 — and a woman working in the center.
Du Four said in the mayhem that ensued the attacker simply walked out and got back on his bicycle before being arrested in a nearby supermarket shortly afterward.
Dr. Ignace Demeyer, director of the local hospital, said 10 children arrived at his hospital with very serious stab wounds, all required surgery, and all were now in stable condition.
“This was a particularly violent attack. All the kids had multiple stab wounds on their legs, arms and all over their bodies,” he said.
He said two adults also required surgery and also were in stable condition.
Demeyer said 21 children were at the center at the time of the attack, and nine were unharmed.
Du Four did not immediately identify the suspect, who was injured as police detained him and taken to a nearby hospital. Local residents told The Associated Press the suspect had a history of mental illness.
Du Four said police had to show distraught parents digital photographs of those taken to the hospital, asking them to identify their children.
“People are totally in shock,” said Leene Du Bois, a spokeswoman for the regional government of Flanders. “Nobody would have imagined anyone could do so much harm. There is much grief.”
She said the perpetrator had no connection to the day care center.
The city opened up a nearby community center to provide psychological counseling to family members and witnesses of the stabbings, and police cordoned off the area.
Veerle Heeren, the social welfare minister for the regional Flemish government, said she would be investigating security measures at the center.