BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Belgian police were hunting two suspects in the tunnels of the Brussels metro system on Wednesday after a shooting at a station in the centre of the city, a source close to the investigation told Reuters.
Nobody was injured in the shooting, the Belgian prosecutor’s office said. Broadcaster VRT said the incident, which happened around 6.15 am (0515 GMT), was probably drug-related and said the shooters had aimed at one person but had missed.
VRT showed on its website images of two people walking into Clemenceau metro station in central Brussels and opening fire. The station along with several others in the Belgian capital were shut after the incident.
Another video showed a large group of heavily armed police assembling at the Clemenceau station, as a massive search for the suspects got underway.
The images could not immediately be verified by Reuters.
The incident crippled traffic on the heavily used metro system in Brussels, which hosts many European Union institutions and NATO’s headquarters.
The Clemenceau station is close to the main Brussels Midi train station, the arrival point for Eurostar trains from Paris and London.
(Reporting by Bart Meijer and Charlotte Van Campenhout, Editing by Timothy Heritage and Gareth Jones)
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