Unknown persons detonated homemade devices overnight from Friday to Saturday in Eisden-Tuinwijk (Maasmechelen), in the province of Limburg, not far from the Dutch border.
Residents of Bevrijdingslaan were first awakened around half past midnight by a loud bang, which rattled the windows of nearby homes. In the aftermath, a fire broke out in a garden shed in one of the houses on the street. A second detonation was heard again when a neighbor saw two masked people fleeing.
Firefighters, police, the army’s bomb disposal service and the forensic laboratory were dispatched to the scene. The facts, which are probably linked to the drug scene, did not claim any victims.
In the house in question lives the family of a 19-year-old young man from Maasmechelen, who has been behind bars since Monday, like his 18-year-old Dutch girlfriend, in particular in connection with a explosive attack that recently targeted a building in Brasschaat, in the Antwerp region.