Explosions heard in attack on Belgium crime laboratoryAFP A explosion "of criminal origin" at Belgium's national criminology institute in Brussels caused a fire and major damage but no casualties, according to officials. Belgium's criminal forensics laboratory was set alight in the early hours of Monday in an attack that prosecutors said was more likely linked to organised crime than terrorism. Five people were detained near the National Institute of Criminology in Brussels over the fire which caused an explosion but no casualties but were later released. "It was arson, deliberate arson, at the laboratory of the federal police," prosecutor Ine Van Wymersch said. ERIC VIDAL/REUTERS A partially-destroyed part of the Belgium's National Institute of Criminology.

Source: Stuff August 29, 2016 13:39 UTC