Blast injures several in Belgium, terrorism ruled out: police

Antwerp police said two adjacent buildings might have also been damaged in what state broadcaster said was a gas explosion

Reuters

Published January 16, 2018

Emergency rescue personnel attend to the scene where a building collapsed in Antwerp, Belgium, January 15, 2018. Image obtained from social media. Landry Zoki/via REUTERS

BRUSSELS: An explosion injured several people and brought down a residential building in the Belgian city of Antwerp on Monday evening, police said, stressing the incident was not related to terrorism.

Belgian news agency Belga reported five people had been injured.

Antwerp police said two adjacent buildings might have also been damaged in what state broadcaster RTBF said was a gas explosion.

Belgium has been on high alert since deadly suicide bombings in 2016 and a wave of extremist attacks across Europe.

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