Six stabbed and four arrested during a Kurdish demonstration in Antwerp (Belgium)

“All of them suffered stab wounds and two of the victims are in critical condition“, a police spokesperson told the Belga agency, who also stated that four suspects had been arrested.

He explained that four of the injured were found in the Opera Square, while two others were discovered nearby.

Medical services attended the scene to provide first aid and transport the victims to hospital.

The Police arrested four suspects who, according to initial investigations, They had infiltrated among the protesters, Belga detailed.

Law enforcement has asked passersby to leave the area and not remain in it.

The Flemish channel VRT reported that The Kurdish community has described the attack as terrorism.

According to the Kurdish organization Navbel, this is “a terrorist attack against the Kurdish community in Antwerp” just after “a protest against the jihadist attacks against the Kurds in northern Syria.”

“This is no different from jihadists who deliberately attack civilians on the street, in shopping centers or other public places,” said the organization’s spokesperson, Orhan Kilic, in statements reported by VRT.

Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria have rapidly lost this month a large part of the territory they had controlled for ten years, conquered in the fight against the Islamic State.

In the area, which the Damascus Government wants to recover, there are several prisons where Islamic State fighters, their wives and children are held.