A van ploughed into a restaurant terrace in central Brussels on Friday afternoon, leaving six folks with minor accidents, in accordance with Belgian police.
One suspect -- whose motivates "aren't identified" as of Friday night -- was arrested shortly after the incident, which passed off at round 13:00 native time on Rue Saint-Michel, close to town's procuring district.
It is unclear at this stage whether or not it was a deliberate act or an accident.
A spokesperson for town's public prosecutor's workplace refused to provide any info on the profile of the arrested particular person.
"The investigation remains to be ongoing to make clear the precise circumstances of the information," stated Willemien Baert at a press convention. "At this stage, the varied leads are nonetheless open, the motives of the suspect aren't but identified."
When requested if it could possibly be terror-related, Baert underlined that it was "not but certain that it's an assault, it's attainable that it was simply an accident."
Police stated the motive force of the automobile fled the scene after the incident, which left two institutions broken, Le Corbeau and Metropolis Pizza.
Emergency companies arrived on the scene in a short time and handled six minor injures on the spot, whereas the van concerned within the crash was discovered shortly after.
The mayor of Brussels informed reporters that the automobile was "travelling at extraordinarily excessive speeds" in the direction of the terrace, the place there was a mixture of vacationers, metropolis staff and Belgian locals.
Reporting from the scene, Euronews correspondent Méabh Mc Mahon stated the procuring district was calm and again to regular afterward within the afternoon.
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