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‘Dead and wounded’ in Brussels metro blast: police

BRUSSELS, March 22, (APP/AFP) – Belgian police told
AFP on Tuesday that a blast at a metro station near the EU institutions caused deaths and injuries, without offering further details.
“There are wounded, There are dead. I don’t know how many,” a police
officer told an AFP reporter as he escorted a woman away from the blast scene.
A Belgian prosecutor in a statement confirmed the explosion at the
Maalbeek metro station.