On Thursday police confiscated a number of firearms that may have been used in shootings in Brussels earlier this week. The Francophone commercial broadcaster RTL reported that one person has been detained. However, the Brussels prosecutor’s office says that it will not confirm this for the time being.
Brussels shootings: police confiscate firearms during searches of properties in and around the capital
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Several properties in and around Brussels were searched by police on Thursday. A number of firearms were seized. It is as yet unclear whether the firearms were used in the shooting near to the Clemenceau metro station earlier this week.
On Wednesday morning two men armed with Kalashnikov machine guns opened fire outside Clemenceau metro station. They then fled into the metro tunnel. A search lasting more than 7 hours that involved officers from the local, federal and railways police, including officers from the Federal Police Special Unit, failed to find the gunmen. The search saw metro services on a large part of lines 2 and 6 suspended. There was also disruption to tram services that pass through the tram tunnel under Brussels South Railway Station.
Also on Wednesday morning there was a shooting in the Brussels municipality of Sint-Joost-ten-Node. On Wednesday night a second shooting outside Clemenceau metro station in which one person was seriously injured.