Brussels police check car with gas bottles, blast heard

A member of the bomb disposal unit stands in an area of central Brussels on Thursday while bomb disposal experts checked a vehicle carrying gas bottles, a police spokeswoman told local media, in Brussels, Belgium March 2, 2017. REUTERS/Marc Baert

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Brussels police detained a man with suspected militant links who was found to be carrying two gas cylinders in his car after he was pulled over on Thursday for running a red light, officials said.

After checks were conducted on the vehicle, prosecutors said that one of the cylinders was empty, and no explosive or mechanism of detonation was found in the car.