{"id":28670,"date":"2026-07-14T13:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/28670\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T13:23:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:23:25","slug":"tragic-blaze-at-brussels-construction-site-lives-lost-and-search-ongoing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/28670\/","title":{"rendered":"Tragic Blaze at Brussels Construction Site: Lives Lost and Search Ongoing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating fire erupted at a construction site in Brussels on Tuesday, resulting in multiple fatalities and an ongoing search for six missing individuals, according to local authorities.<\/p>\n<p>Bodies were found in one of two elevators at the major renovation project on Place de Brouckere, where the fire broke out early in the day. A spokesman for the local labour inspection service noted the uncertainty over whether the deceased are among the missing workers.<\/p>\n<p>The local fire brigade reported that more than 200 workers were present when the fire began, with three people subsequently hospitalized due to the incident.<\/p>\n<p>(With inputs from agencies.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A devastating fire erupted at a construction site in Brussels on Tuesday, resulting in multiple fatalities and an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,4245,15877,11355,14526,15879,15880,15876,2441,15878],"class_list":["post-28670","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brussels","tag-brussels","tag-construction","tag-elevators","tag-fatalities","tag-fire","tag-hospitalized","tag-missing","tag-place-de-brouckere","tag-search","tag-workers"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116918550975423819","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670","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=28670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}