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Belgian police gun down man suspected of detonating bomb at Brussels train station
The end has come for a man suspected of causing a small explosion at the central train station in the capital, Brussels, in what police called a ‘terrorist attack’ after he was gunned down by Belgian troops.
Reports say the man whose identity is yet to be revealed was carrying a backpack and an explosive belt before he was shot by one of the active routine military patrols in Brussels.
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“There is a very heavily armed police and military presence,” Al Jazeera’s Neave Barker, reporting from near the Central Station, said.
“The whole area around here is very much on lockdown.”
The suspect was only confirmed dead after bomb disposal teams had cleared the area, even as prosecutor Eric Van Der Sypt told reporters by the nearby Grand Place that; “We consider this a terrorist attack.”
The city of Brussels has been on alert after two attacks in March 2016 when suicide bombers struck the metro system and an airport in the city, killing 32 people and wounding hundreds more.
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