BRUSSELS: A 90-year-old man accused of killing his wife three years ago is suspected of stabbing to death two elderly residents of a nursing home in Belgium, officials said Friday.
A third resident, a 94-year-old woman, was also in a critical condition in hospital after the attack in Dentergem, western Belgium, the local prosecutor’s office said.
Two men aged 97 and 93 died on the spot after the attacks in separate rooms, it added, saying the suspected attacker has been arrested.
Local mayor Koenraad Degroote told AFP the attacks were carried out with a small knife.
The alleged assailant is accused of killing his 87-year-old wife with a hammer in September 2021, but found mentally unfit to stand trial in a criminal court, Degroote said, confirming Belgian media reports.
“The opinion of the courts was that he should be institutionalized and not in prison. So he was institutionalized in this home,” Degroote told AFP.
“The investigation is underway into the circumstances” of the attack, the prosecutor’s office said, with a forensic team dispatched to the site.
Man, 90, suspected of killing two in Belgium nursing home
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Man, 90, suspected of killing two in Belgium nursing home
- Two men aged 97 and 93 died on the spot after the attacks in separate rooms
- Local mayor Koenraad Degroote told AFP the attacks were carried out with a small knife
Russia will examine Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ invite: Putin
- Invites were sent to dozens of world leaders with a request for $1 billion for a permanent seat on the board
MOSCOW: President Vladimir Putin on Wednesday said Russia would study US President Donald Trump’s invitation to join his “Board of Peace.”
“The Russian foreign ministry has been charged with studying the documents that were sent to us and to consult on the topic with our strategic partners,” Putin said during a televised government meeting. “It is only after that we’ll be able to reply to the invitation.”
He said that Russia could pay the billion dollars being asked for permanent membership “from the Russian assets frozen under the previous American administration.”
He added that the assets could also be used “to reconstruct the territories damaged by the hostilities, after the conclusion of a peace agreement between Russia and Ukraine.”
Invites were sent to dozens of world leaders with a request for $1 billion for a permanent seat on the board.
Although originally meant to oversee Gaza’s rebuilding, the board’s charter does not seem to limit its role to the Palestinian coastal enclave and appears to want to rival the United Nations, drawing the ire of some US allies including France.
