Belgian customs officers arrested 45 people on Wednesday as part of the country’s biggest operation into cigarette counterfeiting. The country has become a hub for cigarette trafficking to neighboring countries. Officers arrested 17 people of Ukrainian and Bulgarian nationality during a pre-dawn raid on a sweatshop in an industrial area …
Read More »Three workers dead, two missing under partially collapsed Belgium school
Three construction workers were confirmed dead and two still missing on Saturday, a day after a school construction site partially collapsed in the Belgian city of Antwerp. The city’s fire department tweeted that three bodies had been found under the rubble. “Despite this terrible toll, the rescue work continues unabated …
Read More »Police find 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck in Belgium
Belgian police found 12 migrants alive in a refrigerated truck at a motorway parking area in northern Belgium on Wednesday after the driver alerted authorities, a federal police spokeswoman said. The driver, who was transporting fruit and vegetables, called the police who found 12 adult men of Syrian and Sudanese …
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