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Blast at Brussels Crime Lab, No Casualties

Blast at Brussels Crime Lab, No Casualties
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An explosion "of criminal origin" at Belgium's national criminology institute in Brussels early Monday caused a fire and major damage but no casualties, officials said.

Blast at Brussels Crime Lab, No Casualties

Belgian media said the blast was caused by a car which rammed the building.
It comes as Belgium remains on high alert following the devastating Daesh [Arabic Acronym for the terrorist "ISIS"/"ISIL" group]-claimed suicide attacks on the city's airport and metro in March.

"There was no one at the site" in the northern Brussels suburb of Neder-Over-Heembeek, a spokesman for the prosecutor's office stated, refusing to comment on the cause except to say the explosion had a "criminal origin".

The prosecutor has set up a "crisis center", the spokesman said.

Fire service spokesman Pierre Meys said "it was probably not accidental."

"The explosion was extremely powerful," said Meys. "Windows of the lab were blown out dozens of metres away."

He said about 30 firefighters were at the scene at around 3:00am fighting the blaze.
RTBF television said two suspects rammed a car into the institute grounds and threw an incendiary device at it.

The institute is part of Belgium's federal justice system.

Among its tasks is to carry out scientific analyses linked to criminal cases and to study the functioning of the penal system.

Belgium has been high alert after suicide bombers struck Brussels airport and a metro station near the European Union headquarters on March 22, killing 32 people.

Those attacks were claimed by the Daesh terrorist group, which controls large areas of territory in Iraq and Syria and has claimed numerous terror attacks in Europe in recent months.

The cell responsible for the Brussels attacks was also heavily involved in the November Paris attacks in which 130 people were killed and hundreds more wounded.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team

 

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