[Trending News] The Belgian police are looking for the authors of a shooting with 'Kaláshnikov' in the Brussels Metro

The Belgian police continued on Wednesday the intense search for two suspects of a shooting with rifles Kaláshnikovbut without injured, perpetrated early in the morning before a subway station in Brussels. The authorities believe that it is an issue related to drug trafficking and mafias, which have increased in the community capital in recent times. The Prosecutor's Office has confirmed that, according to the first investigations, the terrorist track can be ruled out. “At the moment there is no indication of a terrorist mobile in the shooting,” he said in a statement.

The authors of the shooting, two young men, have fled through the subway tunnels and several lines remained cut for a good part of the day, while the police are looking for the suspects in the framework of the suburban network. The service was restored throughout the afternoon in a “progressive” way, according to those responsible for the suburban transport of the Belgian capital.

The subway security cameras spread by several Belgian media show the alleged authors of the shooting with two rifles and the head and face covered with hoods and scarves. Other images have collected the moment when one of them began to shoot outside the station, while the second suspect stayed in the rear, threatening with his gun but without throwing. The cameras have not registered, however, against what or who the attack was directed.

The Unit of the Police in charge of the Brussels Metro claimed the Federal Police for help and the special forces, which were deployed, with tracking dogs, for the subway of the community capital. Without success for the moment.

The shooting has occurred in the Anderlecht neighborhood, west of the city, next to the Clemenceau Metro station, around six in the morning. The authorities warned that the authors had fled by the subway and cut lines 2 and 6. All Bruslense public transport traffic has been altered for a good part of the day. A cell of crisis was installed near the scene to which the new Belgian Interior Minister Bernard Quintin attended, who like the rest of the cabinet led by Wever Flamenco Nationalist Bart, assumed his post this Monday.

“The suspects fled to the subway station and could still be in the tunnel between the Clemenceau and Bruxelles-Midi stations,” had justified the traffic cuts in the morning Sarah Frederickx, spokesman for the police area of ​​Brussels Sur, To the Belgian newspaper The evening. “The South Brussels Police and the Federal Railway Police are making records in the area. There were no injuries in the shooting, ”he added, information subsequently corroborated by the Prosecutor's Office.

The authorities believe that the episode can be an adjustment of accounts near a point considered hot by drug trafficking, according to the newspaper The free Belgiguewhich cites sources in the case, or other episode of the territorial war between active drug trafficking networks, which has caused dozens of shootings in recent months. According to local media, last year there were at least 89 shootings in Brussels, in which nine people died and another 48 were injured.