Brussels lockdown: Belgian police seal part of capital in major security operation
Source: Independent UK
Streets have been closed and armed police special forces units deployed to a southern suburb of Brussels after reports of a possible murder.
A police helicopter could be heard overhead in the Forest district of the Belgian capital, while images from the scene show armed officers taking cover and staking out a building rooftop.
A spokesperson for Belgian police denied local media reports that a gunman was hiding in the area, telling the Reuters news agency: “They are searching the buildings but we can say there has not been any terrorist attack.”
Around lunchtime on Thursday local broadcaster RTL had quoted Forest mayor Marc-Jean Ghyssels as saying that police “suspect the presence of an armed man” in the area.
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