Brussels mosque alert powder turns out to be flour

26 November 2015, 6:51 pm

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Belgian emergency services evacuated the biggest mosque in Brussels and decontaminated 11 people on Thursday after the discovery of a suspicious package containing what turned out to be flour, officials say.

With the EU capital on its highest terror alert, firefighters in chemical suits and gas masks were called in to the Great Mosque of Brussels amid fears that white powder in the package could be anthrax.

“It was just flour. Everything is negative, the cordon has been lifted,” Brussels fire brigade spokesman Pierre Meys tells AFP after the mosque was sealed off for three hours, adding that the substance had been analyzed at a laboratory.

— AFP