Friday, 26 August 2016

At Least 1 Dead in Explosion at Sports Center in Belgium

At least one person was killed after an explosion rocked a sports center in the Belgian city of Chimay, near the French border, according to Chimay's mayor's office.

Five others were wounded in the explosion, two of them seriously. Police told ABC News the facility was fairly empty at the time.

A Belgian Crisis Center staffer told The AP early Friday that "the information that I have is that it due to an accident, probably gas. There is no link to terrorism or anything like that." The staffer could not be named under the center's rules.

Windows were blown out of the two-story building, and one corner of the structure was badly damaged but there was no major collapse, the AP reported.

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