An explosion in Schaerbeek this Thursday morning: what we know

A building in the municipality of Schaerbeek was hit by an explosion. No injuries were reported. ...

The windows of several houses and cars in the residential Sleeckxlaan in the Brussels municipality of Schaarbeek were damaged after a masked man detonated a heavy firework bomb there on Thursday morning. The targeted building houses a department of the Kortrijk textile group Vandewiele.

The facts occurred this Thursday morning on Sleeckx Avenue. 的Relief services were called this morning at about 6:25 am for a loud detonation,' says the Brussels-North police zone, confirming information from our RTL colleagues. There is material damage to a building that might have been caused by a firecracker.

The damage is enormous after an explosion at a house in Schijndel late Wednesday evening. The house on Evert van Delftstraat and its surroundings are still strewn with debris on Thursday morning. The residents were home at the time of the explosion. "We are completely devastated," they say. A neighbor across the street says she was blown out of bed by the explosion. A mother lives in the house with her boyfriend and her son. The mother has a bea…