(sth) Police are calling for witnesses after a bus driver was attacked by a man in Bonnevoie on Wednesday evening around 10pm.

The woman driving the bus had reached her terminus in the rue Demy Schlechter in Bonnevoie shortly before 10pm and was getting ready for her pause, when her arm was grabbed by a man asking her to hand over money.

The aggressor was pulling her arm, but the woman managed to wriggle herself free and step out of her driver cabin. This was when she realised that the man was pointing a gun at her. When he pulled the trigger, the gun luckily only made a clicking noise. Without hesitation, the bus driver charged the assailant and was able to make him drop his weapon.

During the following scramble, the man pulled a small knife and began to wield it at the victim. She tried to avoid the knife but suffered several injuries. When the man was close to the door, the bus driver again reacted quickly and threw him out of the bus. She quickly closed the door and began driving away.

The driver was able to see in the rear-view mirror that the suspect fled into the rue William Turner. Afterwards, she alerted police and the bus company. The gun was still in the bus and was discovered to be a pneumatic weapon.

Police are now searching for the suspect according to the description given by the bus driver: A male, about 1.85m tall, wearing a dark blue jacket with a hood and a scarf. As the scarf was partly covering his face, the woman could merely make out his distinct eyebrows, which almost met in the middle. He also wore black trousers and blue “Allstars” shoes. He spoke some words in German and later on cursed in a different foreign language.

All information can be communicated to the Luxembourg central police office by phone: 4997-4500