A magistrate in the Belgian town of Dendermonde issued a warrant late Friday against the 20-year-old suspect in a bloody knife attack on a child care centre that left two toddlers and a caregiver dead, reports said Saturday, according to dpa. A spokesman for the public prosecutor's office said the man was being held for a triple murder and multiple counts of attempted murder. A team of three psychiatrists has been called in to discern the attackers' motives. The man, wearing black and white makeup, entered the school on Friday morning and went directly to a room for babies and began stabbing wildly. He then went to other rooms and repeated the attack. Most of the children at the centre were three years old or younger. Two children under the age of two and a 54-year-old caregiver were killed. Others, mostly children, sustained serious injuries. The head of the hospital in Aalst, where the children were being treated, spoke of serious injuries. Plastic surgeons were assisting. However, by Saturday five of 12 hospitalized children had been released. Those that remained in the hospital were no longer in critical condition. The attacker escaped on his bicycle, but was captured an hour and a half later by authorities using helicopters and sniffer dogs. Police discovered a bloody knife in a sack in his possession, along with a very realistic toy gun and a hatchet. He was also wearing a bulletproof vest at the time of his arrest. Authorities discovered two more knives at the scene of the crime. "Based on the sequence of events and the weapons that he had with him, we can assume that he planned all of this," said prosecutor Christian Du Four. Eyewitnesses positively identified the assailant as Kim D of Sinaai, a town 12 kilometres north of Dendermonde. The suspect is unemployed and has no history of mental problems or drug abuse. He has made no statement about the attacks since his arrest. Dendermonde is situated around 30 kilometres north-west of Brussels.
