Suspected Suicide Bomber Shot at Brussels Railway Station
Belgian soldiers have shot a man suspected of being a would-be suicide bomber at Brussels Central Station, officials say.
He was shot after reportedly setting off a small explosion and no-one else is believed to have been injured.
Prosecutors later said the man had died. They are treating the incident as a terrorist attack.
In March 2016, 32 people were killed in attacks on Brussels claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.
According to Belgian newspaper La Libre Belgique, quoting prosecutors, the man who was shot was wearing a rucksack and a bomb belt.
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He detonated a device when he attracted the attention of soldiers in the station, the paper says.
Nicolas Van Herrewegen, a railway sorting agent, said he had gone down to the station’s mezzanine level when he heard someone shouting.
Media captionNicolas Van Herrewegen saw a man with a suicide belt shout “Allahu Akbar” (“God is great” in Arabic)