{"id":7969,"date":"2026-03-23T19:02:05","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:02:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/7969\/"},"modified":"2026-03-23T19:02:05","modified_gmt":"2026-03-23T19:02:05","slug":"security-scare-in-brussels-midi-station-evacuated-after-suspicious-bags-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/7969\/","title":{"rendered":"Security Scare in Brussels: Midi Station Evacuated After Suspicious Bags Found"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>Brussels faced significant transport disruptions Monday afternoon after the evacuation of Midi Station, the city&#8217;s largest, due to the discovery of suspicious bags. The incident followed the tenth anniversary of deadly terror attacks.<\/p>\n<p>According to a police spokesperson, one bag was found on a train and another on a platform, prompting the closure. An investigation by police and an anti-explosive army squad is underway.<\/p>\n<p>SNCB spokesperson Vincent Bayer stated that no trains had travelled to or from the station since about 5:30 p.m. The duration of the disruption remains unknown as authorities await further information.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Brussels faced significant transport disruptions Monday afternoon after the evacuation of Midi Station, the city&#8217;s largest, due&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7970,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[18,5709,5713,5707,5712,5711,5708,5564,5706,5710],"class_list":{"0":"post-7969","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-brussels","9":"tag-evacuation","10":"tag-explosive-squad","11":"tag-midi-station","12":"tag-police-investigation","13":"tag-sncb","14":"tag-suspicious-bags","15":"tag-terror-attacks","16":"tag-train","17":"tag-transport-disruption"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/116280043101421374","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969","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=7969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7969\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}