KERKNET.BE Jos Vanderlee was allegedly stabbed after he refused to give the asylum seeker money

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Jos Vanderlee was rushed to hospital with injuries to his hands and tendons after the alleged stabbing in his home in Lanaken, Belgium. The asylum seeker knocked on the pastor’s door to ask if he could use his shower, according to local media.

GETTY The attack comes just days after the deadly attack on a church in Normandy

After using the shower, the suspect demanded Mr Vanderlee give him some money – stabbing him when he refused. The alleged attacker was reportedly trying to claim asylum in the Netherlands, just a few miles away from the sleepy village where the priest lives.

GETTY The suspect was reportedly trying to get asylum in the nearby Netherlands

The suspect is now on the run after the stabbing on Sunday afternoon. The incident comes just days after two crazed Islamic State jihadis executed a French priest at his own altar.

Despite similarities with the deadly ISIS-inspired attack on a Catholic priest in Normandy last week, authorities stressed the attack cannot be linked to terrorism at this stage.

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