Explosions reported at Central Metro station in Brussels

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The central metro station in Brussels has been evacuated after a huge "blast" was reported. Belgian police say they are trying to get the situation under control and are warning people to stay away from the area.

More to follow...

Amirani

"Belgium Grand Place, Brussels Central Station Evacuated, Police Neutralise Person Wearing Explosive Belt - Situation Under Control" - Reuters

refusetolose

more to follow....

Penny Tration

And now we'll go to Maura, with the weather news.

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Sweet Jesus

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40349654

myshirt

Crikey!

BorneTobyWilde

Some say tiny bang
Some say huge blast

snowflaker

Does every breaking news post start now with 0 information, but rather act as a placeholder for the poster to be "first to post"

like the London Fire one- nothing of note in the OP

Harry Palmr

Will Low Transparency wrote: »

Sweet Jesus

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40349654

Breaking news is broken at the end

In March 2016, 32 people died in attacks on Brussels airport and the metro system which were claimed by the Islamic State (IS) group.

'Explosion heard' at

BorneTobyWilde

That's it apparently

RobertKK

I am just sad.

The people who do this lack every form of reason.

Spanish Eyes

We might be immune to it all by now, if we are not on site.

Hence the lack of reaction. But if it happened in Grafton Street.....

Timberrrrrrrr

snowflaker wrote: »

Does every breaking news post start now with 0 information, but rather act as a placeholder for the poster to be "first to post"

like the London Fire one- nothing of note in the OP

Hard to give information when a situation is breaking :rolleyes:

snowflaker

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Hard to give information when a situation is breaking :rolleyes:

So whats the point in posting??? Something may have happened somewhere... Discuss.

The_Kew_Tour

Thank God that these Sucide Bombers seem have hard time trying to blow up things and thankfully the authorities seem be very quick to get these culprits.

Harry Palmr

/\ That thought struck me, the cops seem to be just deciding to shoot on sight now.

Spanish Eyes wrote: »

We might be immune to it all by now, if we are not on site.

Hence the lack of reaction. But if it happened in Grafton Street.....

Sure it's like the 70s/80s - Beirut again? Who cares? Belfast again? Only cares a bit more.....

pjohnson

snowflaker wrote: »

So whats the point in posting??? Something may have happened somewhere... Discuss.

Sorry moderator......oh hang on a minute

BorneTobyWilde

Cillit Bang.
Bang, and the Terrorist was gone

snowflaker

Penny Tration wrote: »

And now we'll go to Maura, with the weather news.

Scorchio!

RayM

The_Kew_Tour wrote: »

Thank God that these Sucide Bombers seem have hard time trying to blow up things and thankfully the authorities seem be very quick to get these culprits.

Four Lions is looking more and more like a documentary every day.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CBjKZaSvfGg

Timberrrrrrrr

snowflaker wrote: »

So whats the point in posting??? Something may have happened somewhere... Discuss.

I seen the London attack on Twitter and posted the thread to let other know it had happened, this was 30 mins before sky news at al were reporting it.

Not everyone is watching news/twitter/social media sites.

I knew nothing of this Brussels incident until I seen this thread. This may come as a shock to you but people like to be informed of incidents as they break.

You could always not open a thread until 2 or 3 days after an incident then you won't have to worry about lack of info in the op :rolleyes:

Omackeral

snowflaker wrote: »

Does every breaking news post start now with 0 information, but rather act as a placeholder for the poster to be "first to post"

like the London Fire one- nothing of note in the OP

That was Harvard level sh*t from the author of that OP compared to their usual posts.

wakka12

wow, european police forces seem to be amazingly fast of late at neutralising terrorists. Absolutely amazing job again.

Timberrrrrrrr

Omackeral wrote: »

That was Harvard level sh*t from the author of that OP compared to their usual posts.

Unlike the deep meaningful insightful mensa level threads you start in the wrestling forum :rolleyes:

s3rtvdbwfj81ch

I was in Brussels a couple of months after the last attack. Security was pretty heavy, and thank jaysis for those tooled up police lads.

Shoot on sight. Ask questions later.

Why do police forces use the euphemism 'neutralise'?

We all know you didn't just balance out his hydrogen ions. Just say you killed him.

snowflaker

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

I seen the London attack on Twitter and posted the thread to let other know it had happened, this was 30 mins before sky news at al were reporting it.

Not everyone is watching news/twitter/social media sites.

I knew nothing of this Brussels incident until I seen this thread. This may come as a shock to you but people like to be informed of incidents as they break.

You could always not open a thread until 2 or 3 days after an incident then you won't have to worry about lack of info in the op :rolleyes:

So you didnt wait for confirmation, do you post most things you see on Twitter? Has Nicolas Cage died (again)?

Without any detail I don't see the value is posting. I don't go to boards for breaking news, especially not After Hours!

Omackeral

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Unlike the deep meaningful insightful mensa level threads you start in the wrestling forum :rolleyes:

Oh no it's roll eyes!!!! F*ck. Also, either you're on the wrestling forum yourself or you've stalked my page...

Timberrrrrrrr

snowflaker wrote: »

So you didnt wait for confirmation, do you post most things you see on Twitter? Has Nicolas Cage died (again)?

Without any detail I don't see the value is posting. I don't go to boards for breaking news, especially not After Hours!

Multiple reports, pictures and video's posted before the media started reporting, yeah maybe it's not really happening until Kay Burley is on scene

Timberrrrrrrr

Omackeral wrote: »

Oh no it's roll eyes!!!! F*ck. Also, either you're on the wrestling forum yourself or you've stalked my page...

Or I click.your name and see threads started by you? 10 seconds told me all I needed to know

snowflaker

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Unlike the deep meaningful insightful mensa level threads you start in the wrestling forum :rolleyes:

Oh its on! /Gets popcorn!

Omackeral

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Or I click.your name and see threads started by you? 10 seconds told me all I needed to know

Thanks for taking an interest. I'll PM you an autograph.

snowflaker

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Multiple reports, pictures and video's posted before the media started reporting, yeah maybe it's not really happening until Kay Burley is on scene

I'm sure the TV companies relay the information once its verified.

Erik Shin

Sebastian Juicy Woodpecker wrote: »

I was in Brussels a couple of months after the last attack. Security was pretty heavy, and thank jaysis for those tooled up police lads.

Shoot on sight. Ask questions later.

I was there a fortnight after the attack... people Couldn't have been nicer and i had a wonderful time

Jayop

What a strange argument. Something happened, someone opened a thread to discuss it, so what? If you don't want to read about it don't click on the thread and most certainly don't comment in it as you'll get notifications.

Looks like another flute has had his plans scuppered. Good.

Omackeral

Omackeral wrote: »

Oh no it's roll eyes!!!! F*ck. Also, either you're on the wrestling forum yourself or you've stalked my page...

You know it isn't real, right?

snowflaker

Timberrrrrrrr wrote: »

Multiple reports, pictures and video's posted before the media started reporting, yeah maybe it's not really happening until Kay Burley is on scene

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=103702899&postcount=1

Yet you didnt reference any of that evidence in your post...

Bishopsback

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Why do police forces use the euphemism 'neutralise'?

We all know you didn't just balance out his hydrogen ions. Just say you killed him.

Sounds better probably.
I suppose to say you train your law enforcement agencies to kill sounds harsh, to say you train them to neutralise a threat to law abiding citizens would be much more acceptable really.
I d guess any way a suspect is apprehended and safety put back in place, including killing the offender is neutralising the threat.
Just my take.

Timberrrrrrrr

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You know it isn't real, right?

Don't!!

He just over the Santa shock :pac:

Omackeral

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

You know it isn't real, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvTNyKIGXiI

Amirani

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Why do police forces use the euphemism 'neutralise'?

We all know you didn't just balance out his hydrogen ions. Just say you killed him.

No doctor etc to pronounce death. Could perhaps be incapacitated rather than actually dead.

snowflaker

Jayop wrote: »

What a strange argument. Something happened, someone opened a thread to discuss it, so what? If you don't want to read about it don't click on the thread and most certainly don't comment in it as you'll get notifications.

Looks like another flute has had his plans scuppered. Good.

How did they open the discussion??? With No information!

How can you discuss something with no information??? Oh wait... After Hours...

wakka12

A Tyrant Named Miltiades! wrote: »

Why do police forces use the euphemism 'neutralise'?

We all know you didn't just balance out his hydrogen ions. Just say you killed him.

Always found that choice of word strange too
Sounds like they shot him with a laser gun that made him evaporate

Jayop

snowflaker wrote: »

How did they open the discussion??? With No information!

How can you discuss something with no information??? Oh wait... After Hours...

Is there not a discussion going on? At least there would be a better one without this kind of inane chatter.

TheChizler

Sebastian Juicy Woodpecker wrote: »

I was in Brussels a couple of months after the last attack. Security was pretty heavy, and thank jaysis for those tooled up police lads.

Shoot on sight. Ask questions later.

Didn't work out too well on the case of Jean Charles de Menezes. Hopefully they were better informed and less trigger happy in this situation.

Atlantic Dawn

I'm actually surprised that the number of these attacks is so "low" given the basic nature of what is required.

pjohnson

snowflaker wrote: »

How did they open the discussion??? With No information!

How can you discuss something with no information??? Oh wait... After Hours...

If you dont like the thread you could just not read it. You know like a normal person? I mean I dont follow wrestling so I dont read those threads. I dont go on criticising people for posting wrestling threads. Maybe AH isn't for you? You seem to fail to understand how discussion forums work. Not every thread is compulsary.

snowflaker

Jayop wrote: »

Is there not a discussion going on? At least there would be a better one without this kind of inane chatter.

Point out the good bits....

snowflaker

pjohnson wrote: »

If you dont like the thread you could just not read it. You know like a normal person? I mean I dont follow wrestling so I dont read those threads. I dont go on criticising people for posting wrestling threads. Maybe AH isn't for you? You seem to fail to understand how discussion forums work. Not every thread is compulsary.

contrary to the opinion of some


X reported in Major City

More to follow


isnt a good way to start a discussion. More like a guessing game.

I don't like wrestling btw...

Gatling

Get the feeling someone isn't getting any virgin's tonight

https://mobile.twitter.com/remybonnaffe/status/877237732963209217/photo/1?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.mirror.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fworld-news%2Fbrussels-central-station-evacuated-amid-10656976

Samaris

Mod: Omackeral and Timberrrrrrrr, knock it off or take it to PM, thanks.