{"id":25041,"date":"2026-07-01T10:47:11","date_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/25041\/"},"modified":"2026-07-01T10:47:11","modified_gmt":"2026-07-01T10:47:11","slug":"several-people-killed-in-fire-at-antwerp-apartment-block-say-belgian-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/25041\/","title":{"rendered":"Several people killed in fire at Antwerp apartment block, say Belgian police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Several people were killed in a fire that broke out on Wednesday morning in an apartment block in the Belgian city of Antwerp, local police said on their website.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The local fire department received a call at 9:53 a.m. (0753 GMT) regarding a &#8220;raging fire&#8221; in the eighth floor of a 10-floor apartment block in the Linkeroever area of Antwerp, police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The building, which has been evacuated, was home to more than 200 people, the police said, adding that several people were injured.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;We ask local residents affected by the smoke to close windows and doors and, if necessary, switch off ventilation,&#8221; police added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Several fire brigades from different districts were on site.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Several people were killed in a fire that broke out on Wednesday morning in an apartment block in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[6],"tags":[19,972,7,5766,69,14526],"class_list":["post-25041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-antwerp","tag-antwerp","tag-apartments","tag-belgium","tag-emergency","tag-europe","tag-fire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116844327543381266","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}