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Faust
01-23-09, 08:59
Belgium: Firearms not needed for murderous rampage.


3 dead, 10 wounded in Belgium day care stabbings

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer Slobodan Lekic, Associated Press Writer – 31 mins ago

DENDERMONDE, Belgium – A man went on a rampage at a Belgium day care center Friday, stabbing two young children and a female worker to death and sending 10 other children to the hospital, officials said.

Sobbing parents rushed to the scene and to hospitals, as officials reported some of the wounded children were in serious condition.

Christian Du Four, a local prosecutor, said in the mayhem that ensued the attacker simply walked out and got on his bicycle before being arrested in a nearby supermarket shortly after the 10 a.m. attack.

"We have three people dead and 10 in various hospitals," Du Four told a news conference.

The attack caused widespread panic in the day care center, which serves 18 children on a residential street in this town 20 miles (30 kilometers) northwest of Brussels...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090123/ap_on_re_eu/eu_belgium_stabbings

lnelson
01-23-09, 13:58
I read in one news account that the killer was a psychiatric
patient who held a grudge against children. He daubed black
and white makeup on his fact to look like the Joker.

http://www.dhirajgupta.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/07/joker-heath-ledger.jpg

Frank
01-23-09, 14:17
That seems odd to go after complete strangers.

Also odd to don white makeup - was he nonwhite by chance?

Frank
01-24-09, 11:08
Du Four said the suspect, whom local media have identified as "Kim D," is refusing to cooperate with police after hours of questioning at a police station in Dendermonde where he is being held.Is Kim D nonwhite?
Prosecutor Christian Du Four said the man held in Friday's fatal rampage lived alone, was unemployed and had no criminal record or previously known mental problems.Another wonderful "individual"...

Source (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090124/ap_on_re_eu/eu_belgium_stabbings).