BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) – Brussels train traffic slowly resumed on Monday evening after services were disrupted by an evacuation at \u200cMidi station, the city’s largest, officials said.<\/p>\n
Police had cleared the \u200cstation on Monday afternoon after suspicious bags were found, a day after the tenth \u200banniversary of deadly terror attacks.<\/p>\n
Police and an army bomb\u2011disposal unit examined the bags and determined they posed no threat, said a spokesperson for Belgian railway infrastructure manager Infrabel.<\/p>\n
“The Brussels-Midi station has been reopened after a \u200cthorough inspection of suspicious \u2060packages. During the evening rush hour, the station was evacuated as a precaution and commuters were cleared out,” \u2060Interior Minister Bernard Quintin said on social media platform X.<\/p>\n
Most train traffic in the Belgian capital passes through Midi station, but no trains arrived \u200bor departed \u200bbetween roughly 5:30 p.m. (1630 GMT) and \u200b8:00 p.m. (1900 GMT), the Infrabel \u200cspokesperson said, adding disruptions would remain for the rest of the day.<\/p>\n
The station is the main high-speed hub for connections between Brussels, Paris, London, Amsterdam and Germany.<\/p>\n
The Midi metro station was also closed.<\/p>\n
On March 22, 2016, coordinated bombings carried out by Islamic State militants killed \u200cdozens of people at Brussels Airport and \u200bMaalbeek metro station. Belgian King Philippe and \u200btop authorities on Sunday \u200bpaid tribute to the victims of the attack in \u200ca ceremony at the metro station \u200band the airport.<\/p>\n
Also \u200bon Monday, in a separate security measure, soldiers were deployed in Brussels and other major Belgian cities to bolster security for \u200bthe Jewish community, \u200cafter what officials said were antisemitic attacks in Belgium and \u200bthe Netherlands.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Inti Landauro and Charlotte Van Campenhout; Editing \u200bby Andrew Cawthorne and Chris Reese)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRUSSELS, March 23 (Reuters) – Brussels train traffic slowly resumed on Monday evening after services were disrupted by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18650,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[211,210,535,27134,25923,26392,27135],"class_list":{"0":"post-48372","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brussels","8":"tag-belgium","9":"tag-brussels","10":"tag-brussels-airport","11":"tag-infrabel","12":"tag-metro-station","13":"tag-midi-station","14":"tag-train-traffic"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116290813117311691","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}