Brussels central station evacuated amid heightened security fears


  • World
  • Sunday, 19 Jun 2016

A girl poses next to Belgian soldiers after a suspect package was found inside the central train station in Brussels, Belgium, June 19, 2016. REUTERS/Francois Lenoir

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels central train station was evacuated for about an hour on Sunday because of a suspicious suitcase amid heightened security fears in the Belgian capital after a huge anti-terror operation led to three men being charged with terrorism offences.

The suitcase later turned out to be a false alarm but shows Belgium's high state of alert as the Euro 2016 football tournament is under way in neighbouring France, three months after Islamist bombers killed 32 people in Brussels. Investigators say the attackers had links to militants who carried out attacks in Paris in November.

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