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Belgian army base car attack: Police hunt for man Belgium army base car attack: Suspect arrested near Namur
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A man is on the run after an attempted attack on a Belgian army barracks in the town of Flawinne. Belgian police have arrested a suspect after a masked gunman tried to crash his car through the gates of an army barracks near the city of Namur.
Shots were fired by Belgian soldiers after a masked man rammed a car into the gates of a paratrooper barracks. The masked man drove off after the attempted attack, during which Belgian soldiers fired shots. No-one was hurt.
The attacker then fled in his car, which has been found abandoned in the nearby town of Belgrade. It is unclear what the attacker's motives were. The attack happened in Flawinne, south-east of Brussels.
Prosecutors say that were no injuries in the attack, near the city of Namur in the south of the country. Later the car was found abandoned nearby, and a suspect was detained, a prosecutor said. The motive for the attack is not yet clear.
Belgian officials say that the identity of the attacker is known. Belgian officials say the attacker's identity is known.
"No-one was hurt, it seems. The man is on the run," a spokesman for Belgian prosecutors told the Reuters news agency. "The individual has just been arrested... There is nothing to suggest there are others involved," local prosecutor Vincent Macq was quoted as saying.
"If I look at it from an outsider's point of view, it seems incomprehensible," he added. "Why would you attack a military barracks? There are plenty of weapons there to strike back." Earlier an official described the attack on a barracks as "incomprehensible" because "there are plenty of weapons there to strike back".
Pictures show a bomb disposal team called to the scene of the abandoned car.Pictures show a bomb disposal team called to the scene of the abandoned car.
Local reports initially said the car was carrying a suspected explosive device.Local reports initially said the car was carrying a suspected explosive device.
However, Belgium officials have been unable to confirm this. However, officials have been unable to confirm this.
"People start making up things quickly," Defence Cabinet Chief Lt Gen Claude Van De Voorde told the Associated Press news agency.
A police academy has been evacuated, according to local media reports.A police academy has been evacuated, according to local media reports.
In January, Belgium police killed two men in a major counter-terrorism raid, just a week after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attacks in the French capital Paris. In January, Belgian police killed two men in a major counter-terrorism raid, just a week after the deadly Charlie Hebdo attack by gunmen in the French capital Paris.