“There were six persons missing, workers with whom we could not establish contact,” said Brecht Speybrouck, spokesperson for the Brussels Labour Prosecutor’s Office. “Two lifts were also blocked in two lift shafts. In the meantime, the fire brigade managed to create a small opening in one of those lifts, and we found multiple victims inside. The exact number of people involved is not yet known. It is possible that all six missing persons are among them, but there may also be people in the other lift or elsewhere.”
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