Two police officers in Brussels have been stabbed in a suspected terrorist attack in which the suspect was shot while trying to escape.
The man knifed one officer in the neck and another in the stomach at around noon on Boulevard Lambermont in the Schaerbeek area.
He then broke the nose of a third officer who arrived at the scene.
The man fled but was shot in the leg after he was stopped by a second group of police and is now in custody.
The 43-year-old suspect, named as Hicham D by prosecutors, is of Belgian nationality.
Police said the officers, who were wearing plain clothes, did not suffer any life-threatening injuries.
Eric Van Der Sypt, a spokesman for the Belgian federal prosecutor's office, said: "We have reason to believe the incident was a terrorist attack."
Earlier on Wednesday, the city's Gare du Nord railway station was closed for an hour because of a bomb alert.
Services resumed after bomb disposal teams checked the area. The two incidents are not believed to be linked, police sources said.
Belgium has been on high alert after bombings in March killed 32 people at the city's airport and a metro station, claimed by IS.
In August, two policewomen were wounded in the southern Belgian city of Mons by a machete-wielding man who shouted "God is Great" in Arabic.
The assailant was shot dead and Islamic State again claimed responsibility.
In September, 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.
The suspect said nothing during the incident and gave no indication of his motives.
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