US EditionBrussels trains disrupted after suspicious bags found at Midi station
Two suspicious packages prompted evacuation and train suspensions at Brussels-Midi; no threats were found after inspections by police and bomb disposal units.
- Today, police evacuated Brussels Midi station after discovering two suspicious packages on separate train platforms, suspending all trains and disrupting travel during peak hours.
- This incident occurs one day after Belgium commemorated 10 years since the 2016 terrorist bombings at Maelbeek and Zaventem, which killed 32 people and left more than 300 wounded.
- Federal police located the packages on platforms 18 and 20 at 5:20 pm, prompting the army's bomb disposal service, DOVO, to examine both packages immediately.
- Belgium maintains the national threat level at "serious"—three on a four-point scale—following an October 2023 attack in Brussels that killed two Swedish football fans.
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The delay caused by suspicious parcels found at Brussels Midi station exceeds 300 hours. ...
No suspect(s) have yet been identified in connection with the suspicious packages at Brussels South station. This was announced by the Brussels Public Prosecutor's Office, which has opened an investigation. For, as the office states: "The fact that the suspicious package was fake does not detract from the criminal nature of the offense."
The Gare du Midi train and subway gates were evacuated months after two suspicious packages were discovered, writes GB News. Both packages were found on different periphery.
The police have evacuated the Brussels station of Midi , the largest in the city, this Monday afternoon after finding suspicious bags in different places one day after the tenth anniversary of the terrorist attacks that hit the city in 2016. The discovery has caused the interruption of all the rail traffic in the Belgian capital, as well as the closure of that metro stop. The finding of a suspicious bag on a train and another on a platform have …
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