Sunday, November 22, 2015

BREAKING: Major Police Activity Reported near Brussels’s Central Square



This is a developing story. Return to this post for updates.




UPDATE 1

Via RT:

A witness at a restaurant in the vicinity told RTL that police had ordered the people to finish their meals and “wait for their signal to evacuate.”

Police ordered people living in Rue de Midi to close their windows. Security forces have put the street and adjacent streets on lockdown, local newspaper La Libre reported.

UPDATE 2

Radisson Blu hotel in Brussels is on lockdown due to a terror threat.

UPDATE 3



UPDATE 4



UPDATE 5

Via RT

HAPPENING NOW:
- Security op in Brussels center
- Armed soldiers involved
- Area near Grand Place & Radisson Blu hotel on lockdown

UPDATE 6



UPDATE 7

Grote Markt evacuated

UPDATE 8



UPDATE 9

There has been “a general threat in the immediate area but no specific threat to the hotel itself,” Channel 4 News Alex Thomson, who is at the Brussels hotel, citing a hotel manager.


















UPDATE 10

Police operation over. Arrests have been made.

UPDATE 11

Police report Salah Abdeslam, subject of manhunt, not among 16 arrested in Belgian raids connected to Paris attacks

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