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, the Brussels prosecutor’s office said.
Nobody was injured in the shooting, which happened around 6.00 am (0500 GMT), the prosecutors said, adding there were no indications of a terrorist motive in the incident.
Broadcaster VRT said the shooting 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 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)
