Four people have been injured in a shooting on the southern fringe of Brussels City Centre. The shooting occurred on the Zuidlaan, near to the Hallepoort. The Brussels-Capital-Elsene Local Police Service confirms that two of the four people injured in the shooting are in a critical condition.
In a statement the police say that "On Tuesday night at around midnight our officers intervened following a shooting on the Zuidlaan. Several patrol vehicles were sent to the scene straight away”.
Four people were injured in the shooting, 2 of them were taken to hospital in a critical condition.
"The Brussels-Capital-Elsene Local Police Service immediately set up three security perimeters around the crime scene in order to secure the area. The prosecutor’s office was informed and several suspects have been arrested”.
Tuesday night’s shooting was the second shooting on the Zuidlaan this week. On Sunday night shots were fired from a vehicle at the facade of a house. No one was injured in Sunday night’s incident.