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(21 Jun 2017) Belgium's Foreign Minister Didier Reynders said on Wednesday a "more serious situation" was probably avoided after a man blew up an explosive device at Brussels' Central Station in yet another attack this week in a European city.The man was shot by soldiers after detonating a small device at the station late on Tuesday in what prosecutors are treating as a "terrorist attack." He lay still for several hours while a bomb squad checked whether he was carrying more explosives and later died. No one else was hurt.Belgian Interior Minister Jan Jambon praised security forces for doing an "excellent job".Belgian media say the suspect was a 37-year-old man from the Molenbeek neighbourhood, the home and transit point for many of the suspects linked to bloody attacks in Brussels and in Paris in November 2015.The two ministers made the comments as they arrived for a security meeting in Brussels on Wednesday morning.You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you... Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork

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