BRUSSELS (AP) — Police in Belgium have detained a suspect after an attacker tried to crash a car through the gates of an army barracks in southern Belgium and fled in the vehicle after shots were fired, the prosecutor’s office said.
The incident occurred near the French-speaking town of Namur, south of Brussels. The suburb of Flawinne is the site of one of Belgium’s major military barracks, home to the 2nd Commando Battalion.
Defense Cabinet chief Lt. Gen. Claude Van De Voorde said that “one car tried to get into the barracks. There was one person in the car” who then fled.
Prosecutor’s spokesman Vincent Macq said police detained a suspect Monday, three hours after the attack.
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